SWEDISH NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR. COLLECTION OF FISHERIES DATA 2009 and 2010

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1 MEMORANDUM Date Revised Revised Revised SWEDISH NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR COLLECTION OF FISHERIES DATA 2009 and 2010 in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 199/2008 Commission Regulation (EC) 665/2008 Council Decision 2008/949/EC

2 Table of Contents I. General framework... 4 II. Organisation of the national Programme... 4 II.A. National organisation and coordination... 4 II.B International coordination... 6 II.C Regional coordination... 6 III. Module of evaluation of the fishing sector... 6 III.A. General description of the fishing sector... 6 III.B Economic variables... 7 The Baltic Sea, the North Sea and East Arctic, and the North Atlantic... 7 III.B.1 Data acquisition... 7 III.B.2 Data quality III.B.3 Regional coordination III.B.4 Derogations and non-conformities III.C Biological - métier-related variables THE BALTIC SEA III.C.1 Selection of métiers to sample III.C.2 Data acquisition III.C.3 Data Quality III.C.4 Regional Coordination III.C.5 Derogations and non-conformities THE NORTH SEA AND EAST ARCTIC III.C.1 Selection of métiers to sample III.C.2 Data acquisition III.C.3 Data Quality III.C.4 Regional Coordination III.C.5 Derogations and non-conformities III.D Biological - Recreational fisheries THE BALTIC SEA III.D.1 Data acquisition III.D.2 Data quality III.D.3 Regional coordination III.D.4 Derogations and non-conformities THE NORTH SEA AND EAST ARCTIC III.D.1 Data acquisition III.D.2 Data quality III.D.3 Regional coordination III.D.4 Derogations and non-conformities III.E Biological stock-related variables THE BALTIC SEA III.E.1 Selection of stocks to sample III.E.2 Data acquisition III.E.3 Data quality III.E.4 Regional coordination III.E.5 Derogations and non-conformities THE NORTH SEA AND EAST ARCTIC III.E.1 Selection of stocks to sample III.E.2 Data acquisition III.E.3 Data quality III.E.4 Regional coordination III.E.5 Derogations and non-conformities

3 III.F Transversal variables III.F.1 Capacity III.F.1.1 Data acquisition III.F.1.2 Data Quality III.F.1.3 Regional coordination III.F.1.4 Derogations and non-conformities III.F.2 Effort III.F.2.1 Data acquisition III.F.2.2 Data quality III.F.2.3 Regional coordination III.F.2.4 Derogations and non-conformities III.F.3 Landings III.F.3.1 Data acquisition III.F.3.2 Data quality III.F.3.3 Regional coordination III.F.3.4 Derogations and non-conformities III.G Research surveys at sea III.G.1 Planned surveys III. G.2 Modifications in the surveys IV. Module of the evaluation of the economic situation of the aquaculture and processing industry IV.A Collection of data concerning the aquaculture IV.A.1 General description of the aquaculture sector IV.A.2 Data acquisition IV.A.3 Data quality IV.A.4 Regional coordination IV.A.5 Derogations and non-conformities IV.B. Collection of data concerning the processing industry IV.B.1 Data acquisition IV.B.2 Data quality IV.B.3 Regional coordination IV.B.4 Derogations and non-conformities V. Module of evaluation of the effects of the fishing sector on the marine ecosystem VI. Module for management and use of the data VI.A Management of the data VI. B Use of the data VII. Follow-up of STECF recommendations VIII. List of derogations IX. List of acronyms and abbreviations X. Comments, suggestions and reflections XI. References XII. Annexes

4 I. General framework This document describes the Swedish Programme for 2009 and 2010 for the collection of data in the fisheries sector. This version is an updated version for the year II. Organisation of the national Programme II.A. National organisation and coordination In Sweden, the Swedish Board of Fisheries (SBF) is the administrative authority responsible for fisheries and fisheries issues. The collection of information on fishing capacity, fishing effort, economics and landing statistics is concentrated to the Department of Resource Management (RF-dep) and the Department of Fisheries Control (K-dep.) while biological data are gathered and analysed at the Institute of Marine Research (IMR), the Institute of Freshwater research (IFR) and the Institute of Coastal Research (ICR). Biological information about catches, information gathered by research vessels and information about discards are co-ordinated internationally in most cases and carried out in close cooperation with research institutes in Member States as well as third countries. IT-issues fall within the responsibilities of the IT-unit of the SBF. All national coordination is led from the IMR in Lysekil. However, since all parts of the programme fall within the responsibility of the SBF, national coordination is comparatively simple and participating institutes and units are frequently connected through electronic communication techniques. For issues needing more thorough discussions, meetings are arranged and there is also a yearly presentation of the programme to the Ministry of Agriculture. Sweden has actively participated in outline of the new DCR legislation and during the past three months intense discussions have been held at national level in order to facilitate a smooth transition into the new programme structure Swedish Board of Fisheries Institute of Marine research Swedish Board of Fisheries National correspondent The National correspondent for Sweden is: Fredrik Arrhenius Swedish Board of Fisheries Research and Development Department PO Box 423 SE Göteborg, Sweden Reseearch Tel: (direct: ) Fax: Mobilephone fredrik.arrhenius@fiskeriverket.se Participating units Department of Fisheries Control (K-dep) Swedish Board of Fisheries PO Box 423 SE Göteborg Tel: Fax: Department of Resource Management (RF-dep), within which the following institutes 4

5 participate: Fisheries Research Office Swedish Board of Fisheries PO Box 423 SE_ Göteborg Tel: Fax: Fisheries Research Office Swedish Board of Fisheries Stora Torget 3 SE Härnösand Tel: Fax: Fisheries Research Office Swedish Board of Fisheries Skeppsbrogatan 9 SE Luleå Tel: Fax: Department of Research and Development (FoU-dep), within which the following institutes participate: Institute of Marine Research (IMR) Swedish Board of Fisheries PO Box 4 SE Lysekil Tel: Fax: Institute of Freshwater Research (IFR) Swedish Board of Fisheries Stångholmsvägen 2 SE Drottningholm Tel: Fax: Institute of Coastal Research (ICR) Swedish Board of Fisheries PO Box 109 SE Öregrund Tel: Fax: IT-Unit Swedish Board of Fisheries PO Box 423 SE Göteborg Tel: Fax:

6 II.B International coordination Table II.B.1. and Table VI.B. illustrate the Swedish participation in international meetings and workshops. These tables are by no means complete as they will be updated in connection with the announcement from the Commission on December 15 of eligible meetings. II.C Regional coordination Sweden is an active participant in the Regional Coordination Meetings for the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. Sweden is also represented in specific working groups of the RACs. Bi-lateral and multi-lateral cooperation on issues like survey design, age-reading, intercalibrations and data-base design is also common for both the North Sea and the Baltic region. Details on coordination within the :s can be found in each relevant module. Formal agreements for cooperation on sampling have been signed with both Denmark and Germany and these are anticipated to be renewed for in connection with the meetings. III. Module of evaluation of the fishing sector III.A. General description of the fishing sector In late 2006 there were 1564 Swedish vessels with licences for commercial fishery and 1880 licensed fishermen. The average age of the fishermen was 52 years. The Swedish fleet consists of many small vessels using passive gear and a smaller number of larger ships mainly using trawls. Most demersal trawlers have their home port on the Swedish west coast as do the larger pelagic trawlers. Most pelagic trawlers from the east coast are targeting vendace. Vessels using passive gears are spread along the entire coastline. Geographically, the activities are concentrated to ICES divisions IIIa and IIId and to some extent, divisions IVa and IVb. The fleet can roughly be divided into: Pelagic (trawl/seine) e.g. herring/sprat, mackerel, blue whiting, sandeel, vendace Demersal (trawl) e.g. gadoids, witch flounder, shrimp, Norway lobster Passive gear (gillnets, fyke-nets, longlines, creels) e.g. cod, herring, salmon, eel, plaice, flounder, turbot, perch, pike, pike-perch, Norway lobster The number of pelagic trawlers <24 m was 54 in 2007, those >24 m 56, the number of cod trawlers <24 m was 50, those >24 m were 12, those targeting Norway lobster were 86, the shrimp trawlers were 47 while those using passive gears were 472 (figures limited to boats with earnings above SEK). Table III.A.1. illustrates the geographical areas where the fleet is operating and the broader species assemblages. Formaterat: Teckensnitt:Inte Kursiv 6

7 III.B Economic variables The Baltic Sea, the North Sea and East Arctic, and the North Atlantic III.B.1 Data acquisition Supra region: Vessels will be allocated to the supra region by their fishing days. In 2007 Swedish vessels only operated in one supra region, the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and Eastern Arctic and the North Atlantic. If, by the end of 2008, it can be shown that Swedish vessels have operated in more than one supra region the concerned vessels will be attributed to the supra region in which they had 50 % or more of its fishing days. If vessels are attributed to a different supra region than the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and Eastern Arctic and the North Atlantic, data will be collected for those vessels separately. Reference years for collection of economic data are 2008 and Final and validated economic data on 2008 will be available in mid December 2009 and final and validated economic data on 2009 will be available in mid December The non-active fleet will not be covered by the survey to be carried out by the Swedish Board of Fisheries (described below) since it by definition does not have any costs related to fisheries. Data are however gathered on effort, which by definition is zero, and capacity (fleet indicators). By experience, the capital value and capital cost of the non-active vessels is similar to capital value and capital cost of active vessels. Therefore capital costs and capital value will be estimated from data of active vessels with the same main gear type as the nonactive vessels used when they were last active and fishing. For the indicator financial position, data from company accounts will be bought from Statistics Sweden for a random sample of vessels. Company accounts: Economic data on costs based on company accounts of all registered fishing companies will be bought from Statistics Sweden. This method results in a close to exhaustive collection of the overall profitability in the fishery. Missing data are due to companies not having sent in their income declaration. Value of landings is compared to the variable main revenue of the enterprise. Deviations up to 25 % higher and 20 % lower from main revenue of the enterprise are accepted. For enterprises owning more than one vessel the data are separated by using the value of landings per vessel. When the main revenue of the enterprise is more than 25 % of value of landings the data in the tax declarations are multiplied by the quota between the vessels value of landings and main revenue of the enterprise. This is based on the assumption that the remaining revenue comes from some other source of income than fisheries and that the distribution of costs are the same as in the fisheries. If the main revenue of the enterprise is less than 80 % of the value of landings and where it seems reasonable to assume that there are revenues from the activity that are distributed to a person that we do not have knowledge of, the data are multiplied by the quota between the vessels value of landings and main revenue of the enterprise. This results in the data being consistently increased to cover the missing persons tax declarations. 7

8 The data are also corrected for any missing data by a quota between the average value of landings for all vessels in the segment divided by the average value of landings for vessels with tax declarations that are ok. Questionnaire survey, sampling strategy: All economic parameters listed in Appendix VI cannot be distinguished from the company accounts. Therefore a questionnaire survey will be conducted. For segments containing less than 25 vessels or where the achieved sample rate has been low previous years, the questionnaire will be sent out to all vessels, for larger segments the questionnaire will be sent out to a random sample of vessels. The selected vessels provide additional information on insurance value, investments in physical capital, employment, repair & maintenance and fuel. This additional information will be used to distribute the total variable costs compiled by Statistics Sweden on the company accounts into Repair and maintenance costs, Variable costs, Non-variable costs and energy costs. The insurance value will be used to estimate Capital value and Capital costs according to the proposed PIM methodology in the capital valuation report. Method for raising the sample results to the total population To raise the sample result to the population a correction factor for missing data and deviations between the sample and population is used. The correction factor is based on effort, i.e. days at sea. If there is a deviation between the effort in the sample and the effort in the population this is corrected for when calculating the averages which are then distributed to the population Clustering: Sweden will look into the possibility of clustering segments where the number of vessels is less than 10. If scientific evidence can be shown justifying clustering of segments, this will be carried out and explained in the technical report. Due to limited amount of time to compile the national programme Sweden has not yet examined if there is scientific evidence to justify any clustering of segments. Definition of variables and sources: As defined in Appendix VI of the Commission regulation (EC) no 665/2008. Income: Gross value of landings is compiled from sales notes, landing declarations, logbooks and monthly journals (Swedish Board of Fisheries, SBF). Direct subsidies and other income are compiled from company accounts (bought from Statistics Sweden). Personnel costs: Wages and salaries of crew are compiled from company accounts (bought from Statistics Sweden). Imputed value of unpaid labour The compilation of imputed value of unpaid labour will be based on data on wages and salaries of crew from income tax declarations and the estimated full time equivalents. If the total sum of wages and salaries from the tax declarations exceeds a given sum corresponding to a certain monthly salary per full time equivalent then there will be no imputed value, if the total sum given by the tax declarations is lower than the given sum a value will be imputed for the part of the full time equivalent that is not covered by the wages and salaries. For vessels 24 meters or longer an imputed value corresponding to a salary of SEK per month before taxes will be used. For vessels less than 24 meters an imputed value corresponding to a salary of SEK per month (before taxes) will be used. Energy costs: Are compiled from the questionnaire survey and exclude lubrication oil. Data will not be broken down by type. Repair & maintenance costs: Compiled from the questionnaire survey. Include all gross costs of repair and maintenance to vessel and gear. 8

9 Other operational costs: Variable costs and non-variable costs will be distributed from the gross operational costs compiled from company accounts by Statistics Sweden through the questionnaire survey. At the moment, there is no system of individual transferable quotas. However, the Swedish government is looking into the possibility of making the individual quotas in the pelagic segments transferable and if this will be put into action, data on lease/rental payments for quota or other fishing rights will be gathered in the questionnaire survey. Capital costs: Capital costs will be calculated according to the PIM methodology documented in the capital valuation report (No FISH/2005/03). Templates available on the DCF website will be applied. Based on age of each vessel, the average service life of vessels from the respective segments will be estimated by conducting a Kaplan-Meier survival analysis for each segment. A survival analysis is a number of statistical procedures that analyse data in order to find the time until an event occurs, in this case the time until a vessel is retired from commercial fisheries. The average service life will be needed in order to distribute the life of the hull, engine, electronics and other equipment over the service life of the vessel. Age will be collected for all vessels from the Swedish fleet register. Calculations of capital costs will be based on the replacement values of the vessels. Replacement values for all vessels are to be estimated in SPSS using insurance values collected through a questionnaire from a randomised sample of vessel owners. Capital value: Value of physical capital will be based on the depreciated replacement value of the hull, engine, electronics and other equipment. Depreciation is set to: hull 7 %, engine 25 %, electronics 25 % and other equipment 25 %. A digressive depreciation will be used. The replacement value will be assumed to consist of hull 60 %, engine 20 %, electronics 10 % and other equipment 10 %. Calculations of capital value will be made using the outcome of calculations made for capital costs. Investments: Investments in physical capital i.e. improvements made to existing vessel/gear during the given year will be compiled from the questionnaire survey. Financial position: data on the debt/asset ratio will be compiled from company accounts (bought from Statistics Sweden). Employment: FTE National and FTE harmonised will be calculated according to the methodology presented in Study No FISH/2005/14. According to national standards in Sweden, the national reference level for FTE working hours of one crew member, including onboard the vessel and onshore, will be fixed to a total of 1800 hours. The harmonised reference level for FTE working hours will be set to 2000 hours in accordance with the Commission Regulation (EC) No 665/2008 Appendix VI. Data on working hours onshore and number of crew members onboard (incl. and excl. rotation) will be collected through a questionnaire. Vessel owners (random sample) from all segments will be asked to give information. Estimations will be made in SPSS in order to make data representative for the population of vessels in each segment respectively. The number of working hours on board the vessel will be based on data collected from logbooks on days at sea (exhaustive survey) and the assumption that one day at sea consists of 12 working hours. Total employment is calculated as average number of persons employed by the vessel. Fleet: Data on number of vessels, mean length over all (LOA), mean vessel tonnage, mean vessel power and mean age will be compiled from the fleet register. Effort: Data on days at sea will be compiled from logbooks and monthly journals. All fishing operations of a commercial nature conducted either by vessels reporting in logbooks or by fishermen holding professional fishing licenses fishing with smaller vessels reporting in coastal journals are covered. Data on energy consumption will be compiled from the questionnaire survey. Number of fishing enterprises/units: Data will be compiled from the fleet register by size category. DCR 9

10 Production value per species: Value of landings per species will be compiled from logbooks, landings declarations and sales notes. Average price per species will be compiled from sales notes and stated as prices in euros per kilo, live weight. Fuel efficiency of fish capture: Sweden shall estimate fuel efficiency of fish capture by using a proportionality key based the quarterly effort by métier to distribute the fuel consumption to métiers and quarter. Fuel efficiency of fish capture will then be estimated as the ratio between value of landings and cost of fuel by quarter and by métier. The data will be analysed in database programmes (Excel/Access) and a programme for data management and statistical analysis (SPSS). III.B.2 Data quality Sweden will in the technical report give a thorough quality report of the data. For data from company accounts bought from Statistics Sweden, the aim is to have an exhaustive survey. If, by any reason, there are missing data this will be described in the quality report. Where a random sample shall be carried out the coverage rate of the population in the segment is given in table III.B.3. The planned target is to cover at least 10 % of the segment or at least 10 vessels. III.B.3 Regional coordination Sweden will participate in the s and implement their recommendations. Source Recommendations Planned responsive actions Baltic & North Sea & East Arctic (2007) THE BALTIC AND NS&EA RECOMMEND A WORKSHOP ON OPTIMIZING SAMPLING STRATEGY FOR ECONOMIC DATA. IF A WORKSHOP WILL BE ORGANIZED SWEDEN WILL PARTICIPATE. Baltic (2007) North Sea & East THE BALTIC RECOMMENDS THE DESCRIPTION OF THE SOURCE OF THE INFORMATION, AND WHEN APPLYING A SAMPLING PROCEDURE, A DESCRIPTION OF METHOD AND STRATEGY HAS TO BE CLEARLY DESCRIBED IN THE NATIONAL PROGRAMME TO GIVE USEFUL INFORMATION ON QUALITY OF THE OBTAINED DATA. IN THE TECHNICAL REPORT THERE SHOULD THEN BE A QUALITATIVE QUALITY REPORT CONTAINING A THOROUGH DESCRIPTION OF THE METHODS AND STRATEGIES USED AND THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GATHERED DATA. THE BALTIC RECOMMENDS NOT TO USE THE PRECISION LEVEL AS AN INDICATOR OF HETEROGENEITY BUT RATHER USE THE MEAN VALUE AND STANDARD DEVIATION. THE NS&EA RECOMMENDS A DEDICATED WORKSHOP BY THOSE COUNTRIES THAT HAVE ECONOMIC FLEET DATA AVAILABLE FOR SEVERAL YEARS TO EXAMINE IF THE DATA ON THE LESS INFORMATION IS GIVEN ON THE SAMPLING PROCEDURE IN THIS NP. SWEDEN WILL PROVIDE A THOROUGH QUALITY REPORT IN THE TECHNICAL REPORT.. IF A WORKSHOP WILL BE ORGANIZED SWEDEN WILL PARTICIPATE. 10

11 Arctic (2007) North Sea & East Arctic (2007) ACTIVE AND INACTIVE SECTOR ARE STABLE. THE NS&EA RECOMMENDS SETTING UP A WORKSHOP TO CLARIFY ALL OUTSTANDING ISSUES CONCERNING THE FLEET-BASED APPROACH WITH REGARD TO ECONOMIC DATA COLLECTION. IF A WORKSHOP WILL BE ORGANIZED SWEDEN WILL PARTICIPATE. III.B.4 Derogations and non-conformities There are no planned derogations or non-conformities with the requirements of the DCF. DCR 11

12 III.C Biological - métier-related variables THE BALTIC SEA III.C.1 Selection of métiers to sample The main input data for the ranking of métiers and the subsequent choice of métiers to sample is information from the logbooks and in the case of small scale fisheries, information from monthly fishing journals. The Swedish logbook is extended compared to the EU logbook. Valuable additional information in the Swedish logbook is the data on a haul to haul basis and detailed geographical information as to where the fishing takes place (lat, long). The fishermen also provide more detailed information of the gears used and the species targeted. Sweden has, for example, for the Bottom Otter Trawl (OTB), 19 national codes, all describing different gear characteristics (incl. selectivity devices) and target species assemblages. Furthermore, it is mandatory for Swedish vessels not carrying logbooks to report their gear, number of fishing days, fishing areas and catches (by species) in monthly fishing journals. When assigning fishing trips to métiers, the national gear codes have been assigned to a métier if the national code in combination with the mesh size clearly falls within one DCF métier (level 6). For example, there is a national gear code for fyke nets targeting eel. All fishing trips registered with this gear code have been assigned to FYK_CAT_0_0_0. If the definition of the national gear code allows fishing trips to be allocated to more than one DCR métier (level 6) the fishing trip have been assigned to a métier using the national gear code in combination with the catch composition in weight. The ranking of métiers have been done by region and not by fishing grounds. The reason for this is that region is the relevant spatial unit for some métiers (such as PTM_SPF_16-31_0_0) while fishing ground is more accurate for others. National métiers taking the fishing ground into account have been established for métiers where the fishing grounds are considered important. The bottom trawl fishery targeting cod is, for example, considered to be two métiers (subdivision and subdivision 25-32) since they target cod from different stocks and have a different seasonal exploitation pattern. All selected métiers, including national métiers taking fishing ground (and in a few cases target species), are listed in table III.C.3. Total value of a métier is calculated by using mean values (and weight by species) of the different species. The value is given in EUR. Effort is reported as days at sea. All métiers for which trips have been allocated to are presented in table III.C.1 DCR III.C.2 Data acquisition The extended Swedish logbook and the mandatory monthly fishing journals for vessels not carrying logbooks, give Sweden the opportunity to have complete information of species composition and weight by species in landings from all métiers, including vessels <10 m. Information from sales slips will further, in relevant cases, provide us with information on composition of commercial size categories in the different métiers. Size categories in Sweden are harmonised to the EU standard. For the métiers selected for sampling, the sampling scheme will further provide us with information on length frequencies of the landed part of the catch and volumes of discards. For G1 and G2 species, length (and age) composition will also be obtained from the discarded part of the catch. 12

13 Sweden will apply different sampling strategies on different métiers depending on the different characteristics of the métiers. At all sampling occasions, information on vessel and gear characteristics as well as place, date, time and duration of the fishing operations will be collected. Main sampling strategies Concurrent sampling of catches at sea This sampling scheme will be applied for métiers where discard rates are expected to be above 10%. In the Baltic this sampling strategy will be the primary strategy applied to trawls targeting demersal fish (OTB_DEF_>=105_1_110 and OTM_DEF_>=105_1_110). Data will be collected by staff from Swedish Board of Fisheries (SBF) by sampling on board randomly chosen commercial fishing vessels. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Information to be collected is: - Total weight of discard and landing by all species caught - Separate length distributions of discard and landings by all species caught. If the retained part of the catch is landed in commercial weight categories, separate length frequencies are obtained by category -Otoliths per cm group of discard part of the catch of G1 and G2 species for which Sweden conducts age sampling of landings. For some métiers, sampling will be performed as self-sampling by fishermen. Unsorted random subsamples of the total catch, including by-catches and discard, are purchased directly from the vessel. Samples may also be collected by the Swedish Coast Guard. All the samples are transported to the SBF research laboratories for analysis where information is registered as described above (PTM_SPF_16-31_0_0, GNS_SPF_<110_0_0 and OTB_SPF_16-31_0_0 in SD 30 and GNS_DEF_>110_0_0 flatfish). The sampling procedure will be validated by SBF staff on a regular basis- Swedish Board of Fisheries Concurrent sampling of landings at markets This sampling scheme will be applied for métiers where discard rates are expected to be low. In the Baltic this sampling strategy will be the primary strategy applied for trawls targeting small pelagic fish (PTM_SPF_16-31_0_0 and OTB_SPF_16-31_0_0) and for gillnetters and longliners targeting demersal fish (GNS_DEF_>=110_0_0 and LLS_DEF_0_0_0). Data will be collected by staff from SBF by randomly sampling landings in harbours. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Information to be collected is: - Total weight of landing by all species caught - Length distributions of landings by all species caught. If the landed in commercial weight categories, separate length frequencies are obtained by category For métiers some targeting small pelagic fish (PTM_SPF_16-31_0_0 and OTB_SPF_16-31_0_0 (sub 22-29)) the information will be based on unsorted sub-samples of the total landing purchased from the fishermen, purchased at different landing ports. All these samples are transported to the SBF research laboratories for analysis where length measurements of all species included in the sample are taken. Swedish Board of fisheries Swedish Board of Fisheries 13

14 Sweden will during 2009, for some métiers (GNS_DEF_>=110_0_0 and LLS_DEF_0_0_0), as a complement to the market based concurrent sampling, carry out a pilot project to evaluate if discards in these métiers could be assessed by fishermen bringing the discards ashore. Other Stock specific sampling based on commercial size categories In Sweden all information for landings required by métier are available in the official catch statistics except length distributions. The distribution of landed size categories by métier is however available through sales slips. Commercial size categories in Sweden are well defined and harmonised to EU standards. In order to improve precision of the length distribution for the landed part of the catch, Sweden will for some métiers (ex. OTB_DEF_>=105_1_110) and stocks, carry out complementary stock specific sampling based on commercial size categories. Other-Stock specific sampling combined with survey data In the métier of fyke net fisheries targeting catadromous species (FYK_CAT_0_0_0) sampling of discards at sea is not considered feasible in all fishing grounds (North Sea SD 20-21, Baltic SD 22-24), due to a high rate of consumption of the discard by shore crabs. Concurrent sampling at sea will be replaced by analysis of data from existing test fishing surveys using fyke nets. Survey data on catch composition and length distributions are available. As a complement, stock-specific sampling of the length distribution of landings will be performed by staff at SBF. Other- detailed journal by fishermen For métiers in which daily catches are expected to be low or irregular, concurrent sampling of catches at sea will partly be performed by contracted fishermen, who are asked to keep a more detailed journal of their catches (FPO_ANA_0_0_0). The information will serve as an addition to stock-specific sampling of the length distribution of catches being performed by staff at SBF, in order to increase precision. Allocation of sampling effort to métiers Sampling effort has been allocated to the métier based on prior sampling, knowledge of variation in the different métiers, importance of different métiers (Swedish share of the métier / stocks at an international level) and precision targets. Sampling effort is allocated ensuring that the number of trips sampled is at least one per month and métier throughout the fishing season. However, so far, no thorough analysis has been made to optimise number of samples and sample sizes for sampling all the Swedish métiers. Sweden has been waiting for the finalisation of the COST project to initialise this work. Optimisation of sampling and sampling schemes will be a prioritised issue in Sweden the forthcoming years. Planned number of sampled trips by métier is presented in table III.C.3. For small-scale coastal fisheries, conducted from vessels < 10 m length, presenting fishing effort as total number of trips (table III.C.3) is not applicable. Statistics from these fisheries are available at the level of effort per month in the obligatory national fishing forms, and the relevant measure of effort will vary with gear applied. For these fisheries, sampling effort is allocated ensuring that the number of sampling occasions is at least one per month and métier throughout the fishing season, although relevant measures of total effort are currently lacking. Table III.C.4 shows sampling intensity of length measurements of all G1 and G2 species listed in Appendix VII. The sampling strategy for métiers is aiming for a certain number of trips ( 1 trip per month) and/or number of hauls, rather than targeting a certain number of 14

15 individuals to be measured. In the sea sampling programme, Sweden as a rule of thumb takes random subsamples containing approximately: for species with a large occurrence at the trip/haul: Discards; 100 individuals / haul for cod and other species with a wide length frequency; 50 individuals./haul for other species. Landings; 100 individuals / size category for cod and other species with a wide length frequency; 50 individuals /haul for other species. for other species: all available individuals within the trip/haul/sample The catch composition and volume in catch is not known beforehand and therefore, numbers of length measured individuals are impossible to predict and plan exactly. In table III.C.4 number of length measured individuals sampled in 2007 are listed to give an idea of sampling levels. Cells containing 0 means that the species was not caught and length measured in 2007 but could appear in future catches. Knowledge of CV levels in length measurements are not calculated for all stocks and the sampling approach described above has been used. Column No.of fish necessary to achieve the precision target, has therefore been left blank, except for one stock. Merging of métiers for sampling Métiers with equal or very similar catch composition have been merged for sampling purposes. All merged métiers are presented in table III.C.2. Information on gear characteristics will however be collected at all sampling occasions to identify the original métier sampled. The merging of métiers is for the planned sampling in not always based on a thorough scientific analysis but on the knowledge of the exploitation pattern, management of the fisheries and common sense. Scientific analysis of the métiers and the possibilities to merge them based on scientific analysis will be a prioritised issue during the programme period. WKMERGE (2010), in which Sweden will participate will be of great value for the analyses of merging fisheries. Rationale for merging of métiers is expressed below within the description of the different métiers. Description of Swedish métiers that will be sampled. Descriptions of fisheries picked by the métier ranking system but not chosen for sampling are found in III.C.5 Derogations and non-conformities Trawl fisheries targeting small pelagic fish (PTM_SPF_16_31_0_0), subdivision 22-29, 32 In 2007 the total annual landing from the métier was tonnes. The landings constitutes exclusively (>99%) of the target species herring and sprat. The majority of the landings are for industrial purposes but there are also landings for human consumption. The fisheries are conducted all year around but are less intense during summer. The fishery is nationally managed by yearly rations, limiting the allowed landing by vessel. The majority of the catches (94% in 2007) are taken by pair trawlers using a mesh size mm. However, to some extent other trawls and mesh sizes are used within the fisheries. The métiers PTM_SPF_32-69_0_0, PTM_SPF_16-31_0_0, OTM_SPF_32-69_0_0, OTM_SPF_16-31_0_0, OTB_SPF_32-69_0_0 and OTB_SPF_16-31_0_0 are thereby merged. The métier was included in the sea sampling programme Discard rates are estimated to be below 10%. The métier will be sampled concurrently in harbours/at markets by purchasing unsorted samples. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Sampling will be 15

16 stratified by quarter and subdivision. The assumption for the planned number of trip is that the fishery is conducted all year around in the main subdivisions (SD 24, 25, 27, 28, 29). Trawl fisheries targeting small pelagic fish (OTB_SPF_16_31_0_0), subdivision The herring fishery in SD 30 and 31 is regulated by TACs within Management Unit 3 of International Baltic Sea Fishery. Fishing data of the trawl fisheries are entered in the Swedish logbook, which conforms to the EU fishing logbook but provides information on hauls, positions and applied gear on a more detailed basis. Total landings of herring (Clupea harengus spp. membrans) in SD amounted to 2650 tonnes in The main fishing season on trawl fisheries targeting herring for human consumption is in quarter 2, but some fishing takes place throughout the year. The fishery is clearly concentrated to subdivision 30, where all of the landings are normally taken. The estimated amount of by-catch is low, as evident from previous sampling within this métier. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Samples will collected by purchasing a random sample of of about 20 kg of the unsorted catch, including by-catches and discard, directly from the fishing vessel. Sampling will be performed from three different vessels in each quarter (1-4) in subdivision 30. Samples are analyzed by staff at ICR in Öregrund. The catch is sorted and weighted by species and commercial category, and the lengths of all individuals are registered. Bottom trawl fisheries targeting demersal fish (OTB_DEF_>=105_1_110), subdivision The bottom trawl fisheries targeting demersal fish in subdivision is almost exclusively a cod fishery, exploiting the western Baltic cod stock. In 2007 the total landing from the métier was 1620 tonnes of which 1520 tonnes (94%) where cod. The fisheries are managed in accordance with the Management plan for Baltic Sea cod (1098/2007) which includes a closed season (April) during the spawning season. The métier is also limited by allowed number of days at sea in accordance with the TAC regulation (1404/2007 annex II). Sweden practices temporal closures on a national basis to fulfill the effort limitation in the regulation. The fishery is further nationally managed by rations, limiting the allowed landing for a 14 day period by vessel. The fishing pattern (exploit effort) in subdivision is strongly linked to regulations limiting the fisheries in area since the same vessels are involved in both fisheries and thereby varies over year. The métier has been included in the sea-sampling programme since the mid 1990ies. Discard rates of cod fluctuates between years but the overall discard rate is estimated to be above 10%. The métier will be sampled concurrently at sea throughout the main fishing season. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Sampling will be stratified by quarter. The majority of the fisheries are conducted with otter bottom trawls even though some fishermen are using twin trawls. The exploitation pattern of the gears is the same and the métiers OTB_DEF_>=105_1_110 and OTT_DEF_>=105_1_110 are therefore merged. Bottom trawl fisheries targeting demersal fish (OTB_DEF_>=105_1_110), subdivision The bottom trawl fishery targeting demersal fish in subdivision is almost exclusively a cod fishery, exploiting the eastern Baltic cod stock. In 2007 the total landing from the métier was 6215 tonnes of which 6105 tonnes (98%) were cod. The fishery predominantly takes place in subdivision 25. The fisheries are managed in accordance with the Management plan for Baltic Sea cod (1098/2007) which includes a closed season during July-August. The métier is also limited by allowed number of days at sea in accordance with the TAC regulation (1404/2007 annex II). Sweden practices temporal closures on a national basis to 16

17 fulfill the effort limitation in the regulation. The fishery is further nationally managed by rations, limiting the allowed landing for a 14 day period by vessel. During springtime the bottom trawl fishery is some years replaced by a mid-water trawl fishery (see OTM_DEF_>=105_1_110). The métier has been included in the sea-sampling programme since the mid 1990ies. Discard rates of cod fluctuate between years but the overall discard rate is estimated to be above 10%. The métier will be sampled concurrently at sea throughout the main fishing season. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Sampling will be stratified by quarter. The majority of the fisheries are conducted with otter bottom trawls even though some fishermen are using twin trawls. The exploitation pattern of the gears is the same and the métiers OTB_DEF_>=105_1_110 and OTT_DEF_>=105_1_110 are therefore merged. Midwater trawl fisheries targeting demersal fish (OTM_DEF_>=105_1_110), subdivision In 2007 the total landing from the métier was 1225 tonnes. The landings consist of more than 99% of cod. The fishery is conducted in the springtime when the cod leaves the bottom to spawn or when the oxygen concentration in the bottom water is low. The importance of the midwater trawl fisheries in comparison with the bottom trawl fisheries vary considerable (0-20% of the trawl catches of cod) between years. The fishery is managed the same way as the bottom trawl fisheries (OTB_DEF_>=105_1_110) in the area. The métier has been included in the sea-sampling programme since the mid 1990ies. Discard rates of cod fluctuate between years but the overall discard rate is estimated to be above 10%. The métier will be sampled concurrently at sea throughout the main fishing season if the fishery will be of importance during the programme period. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Sampling will be stratified by quarter. Set gillnet targeting small pelagic fish (GNS_SPF_<110_0_0) A small-scale gillnet fishery targeting herring (Clupea harengus spp. membrans) for human consumption is conducted in near-shore areas. The major proportion of the fishery is conducted in SD 30 and 31. The fishery mainly takes place during the peak reproductive period of herring in the spring and in some cases also during a second reproductive peak in the autumn. Landings are recorded in monthly fishing journals, which provide information of species composition and weight by species. Average landings in in the Baltic Sea were 1000 tonnes per year, and the amount of by-catch is estimated as low. The métier was selected due to high effort (5878 days per year). Sampling will be performed in SD 30-31, where main part of the fishery within this métier is conducted. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Samples will be collected by purchasing a random sample of about 20 kg of the unsorted catch, including 5 kg by-catches and discard, directly from the fishing vessel. Because of restricting weather conditions, gill net fishing is limited in quarters 1 and 4, and sampling will be conducted in the quarters of relevance for the fishery (2-3). Sampling will be performed from three different vessels in each quarter (2-3) and subdivision. Samples are analyzed by staff at ICR in Öregrund. The catch is sorted and weighted by species and the lengths of all individuals are registered by 0,5 cm. Set gillnet fisheries targeting demersal fish (GNS_DEF_>=110_0_0) Gillnet fisheries targeting demersal fish could be divided into two national métiers based on target species- A gillnet fishery targeting cod and a gillnet fishery targeting flatfish. The gillnet fishery targeting cod is predominantly taking place in subdivision 23, 24 and 25 while commercial category, and. 17

18 the targeted flatfish fishery is conducted further north (subdivision 27 and 28). A variety of mesh sizes are used in both fisheries as well as a mixture of set gillnets and trammel nets. Set gillnets and trammel nets as well as the different mesh sizes have therefore been merged for sampling purposes. The gillnet fisheries targeting cod have been divided into two métiers based on fishing ground. i) cod, subdivision In 2007 the total landing from the métier was 1445 tonnes of which 1227 tonnes (85%) where cod. The Swedish fisheries take place in subdivision 23 and 24. The fisheries are managed in accordance with the Management plan for Baltic Sea cod (1098/2007) which includes a closed season (April) during the spawning season. The métier is also limited by allowed number of days at sea in accordance with the TAC regulation (1404/2007 annex II). Sweden practices temporal closures on a national basis to fulfill the effort limitation in the regulation. The fishery is further nationally managed by rations, limiting the allowed landing for a 14 day period by vessel. The métier has been included in the sea-sampling programme during The discard rate was found to be well below 10% in subdivision 24 but higher in subdivision 23. One reason for this is that subdivision 23 borders to the Kattegat which houses a more complex marine fauna. Sampling will, due to the differences in exploitation pattern, be stratified by subdivision. The métier will be sampled concurrently at harbours (markets) throughout the main fishing season. Sweden will during 2009, as a complement to the market based concurrent sampling, carry out a pilot project to evaluate if discards in the métier could be sampled after fishermen bringing the discards ashore. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Sampling will be stratified by quarter. i) cod, subdivision In 2007 the total landing from the métier was 1700 tonnes of which 1600 tonnes (94%) where cod. The Swedish fisheries predominantly take place in subdivision 25. The fisheries are managed in accordance with the Management plan for Baltic Sea cod (1098/2007) which includes a closed season (July-August) during the spawning season. A limited fishery (5 days a month) is allowed for vessels below 12 meters during the closed season. The métier is limited by allowed number of days at sea in accordance with the TAC regulation (1404/2007 annex II). Sweden practices temporal closures on a national basis to fulfill the effort limitation in the regulation. The fishery is further nationally managed by rations, limiting the allowed landing for a 14 day period by vessel. The métier has been included in the sea-sampling programme during The discard rate was found to be well below 10%. The métier will be sampled concurrently in harbours (markets) throughout the main fishing season. Sweden will during 2009, as a complement to the market based concurrent sampling, carry out a pilot project to evaluate if discards in the métier could be sampled after fishermen bringing the discards ashore. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Sampling will be stratified by quarter. ii) flatfish A seasonal set-gillnet fishery targeting flounder (Platichtys flesus) is conducted at the Swedish coast in the central Baltic. The quantitative focus of the fishery is within SD27. The fishery is regulated by minimum landing size, closure-time during spawning and technical 18

19 measures (minimum mesh-size). Because of the restrictions in minimum mesh size, discard rate is expected to be low. Sampling will be conducted by the ICR. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. The métier will be sampled concurrently at sea throughout the main fishing season. Sampling will be done monthly in SD 27 and will be temporally focused on the most intensive fishing period (July-August), which covers more than 70% of the fishery. The sampled catches will contain at least contain 300 flounders every month. Longline fisheries targeting demersal fish (LLS_DEF_0_0_0), Subdivision In 2007 the total landing from the métier was 560 tonnes. The landings consist of more than 99% of cod. The Swedish fisheries predominantly take place in subdivision 25. The fisheries are managed in accordance with the Management plan for Baltic Sea cod (1098/2007) which includes a closed season (July-August) during the spawning season. A limited fishery (5 days a month) is allowed for vessels below 12 meters during the closed season. The métier is limited by allowed number of days at sea in accordance with the TAC regulation (1404/2007 annex II). Sweden practices temporal closures on a national basis to fulfill the effort limitation in the regulation. The fishery is further nationally managed by rations, limiting the allowed landing for a 14 day period by vessel. The métier has been included in the sea-sampling programme during The discard rate was found to be below 10%. The métier will be sampled concurrently in harbours (markets) throughout the main fishing season. Sweden will during 2009, as a complement to the market based concurrent sampling, carry out a pilot project to evaluate if discards in the métier could be sampled after fishermen bringing the discards ashore. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Sampling will be stratified by quarter. Samples will collected by purchasing unsorted random samples of catch, including bycatches and discard, directly from the vessel moth Fyke net fisheries targeting catadromous species (FYK_CAT_0_0_0) Fishing for yellow eel (Anguilla anguilla) with small fyke nets is concentrated to the Öresund area (ICES SD 23). A minor fishery also exists on the central Baltic coast in ICES SD 27. All areas target the same subpopulation of eel, based on a common recruitment of glass eel to the Swedish west coast. Peaks in landings normally occur in May-September. The total annual landings in this fishery were 68 tonnes in Discards in the central Baltic are estimated to be small, and non-target species and individuals can be returned live with a high probability of survival. Discards in the Öresund area are estimated to be above 10%, due to a high abundance of shore crabs eating most of the fish by-catch. Due to the high level of shore crab consumption, concurrent sampling of catches at sea in the Öresund area is considered impossible within reasonable costs. Survey data on catch composition exist for long timeseries in that area that will provide a good proxy for discards in the fyke net fishery. Concurrent sampling at sea is proposed to be replaced by analysis of data from existing test fishing surveys using fyke nets, from which data on catch composition and length distributions of all species is available. As a complement, stock specific sampling of yellow eel will be applied on a quarterly basis in quarters 2 and 3 in SD 23 and once in summer, during the peak of landings, in SD 27. Sampling will include undersized and thus normally discarded eels. Sampling of this fishery will be coordinated with sampling of the fyke net fishery targeting yellow eel in the North Sea and East Arctic region. The métier was selected due to high effort. for discard Pound net fisheries targeting catadromous species (FPN CAT 0 0 0) This fishery targets silver eel (Anguilla anguilla) in the early phase of their migration towards the spawning grounds in the Sargasso sea. It is the basis of small scale coastal fisheries in 19

20 many areas along the Swedish coast in ICES subdivisions 23, 24, 25 and 27, i.e. from Öresund into the Baltic proper. The total annual landings in this fishery were 254 tonnes in It is a seasonal fishery, starting at midsummer in the easternmost parts. Peaks in landings normally occur in August-October in SD25 and 27 and the latest in October- November in the Öresund area. A seasonal span from summer to late autumn reflect plausible differences in the composition of by-catches and discards, with freshwater species being more abundant at higher water temperatures in summer in the Baltic Proper and marine species more plausible in the autumn and in the south-western parts of the area. Discards are estimated to be above 10% and a concurrent sampling of catches at sea is proposed, based on monthly samples during the peak of the season in ICES SD 23, 24, 25 and 27. The métier will be sampled using sampling scheme 1. The métier was selected due to high effort. Trawl fisheries targeting freshwater species (PTB_FWS_16-31_0_0) A seasonal small-meshed trawl fishery with small-sized pair-trawlers is conducted in Subdivision 31 (Bothnian Bay). The fishery occurs within the Swedish territorial zone and is nationally regulated by effort (license permits), area closures and technical measures (selective grids). The fishery is only allowed during six weeks each autumn. Target species is vendace (Coregonus albula). Average landings of all species were 1114 tonnes per year. The major by-catch consists of herring (Clupea harengus) (20% in weight) but minor catches of whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus) (2%) and other fresh-water species (3%) are common. Catches including by-catches are landed unsorted and recorded by census methods (logbooks and specific fishing journals). The metier is sampled following sampling scheme 1. Unsorted samples of the catch from 4 fishing trips are collected during the fishing season (September-October) using a randomized design by vessel and landing date. The metier was selected due to high economical value. Trap net fisheries targeting anadromous species (FPO_ANA_0_0_0) Coastal fishery for anadromous species in the Baltic is heavily dominated by the métier FPO_ANA_0_0_0 with different kinds of traps having similar catch composition. The métiers FYK_ANA_0_0_0 and FPN_ANA_0_0_0 are merged with this métier, due to strong similarities in catch composition. The métier mainly targets salmon (Salmo salar) and whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus). The fishery is nationally regulated by effort (permit, area and seasonal closures). This fishery targeting anadromous fish takes place almost exclusively in Sub-division (94.4% of total catch) even though it also occurs to a very low extent in Sub-division Fishing takes place mainly in quarters 2 and 3. A sampling of this métier was motivated by the high proportion of the total fishing effort. Anadromous species made up in total 92.5% of the total catch of 202 tonnes fished by commercial fishermen in 2007 with freshwater species contributing to most of the remainder. This catch figure does not cover the recreational fishery with similar gear operated in Sub-division Sampling of this metier takes place partly by selecting particular fishermen who are considered representative of the fishery. They are asked to keep an extra journal with more detailed records of their fishery than the normal logbook (strategy other in Table III.C.3 for 2009, this was removed as strategy for 2010 event though the fishermen continues to keep them). Sampling of length distribution of catches from these fishermen will take place by observers either at sea or in harbours at least monthly dependent on local conditions and the schemes of local fishermen. Discards and total landings will be checked by sea sampling or in harbours where fishermen are bringing the entire catch in the trap métier sampled twice métier métier. Set gillnet fisheries targeting anadromous and freshwater species (GNS_ANA_<110_0_0) 20

21 The coastal gillnet fishery targets both anadromous and freshwater species. The métier GNS_FWS_<110_0_0 is merged with this métier, due to strong similarities in catch composition. The most important target species are common whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus) and perch (Perca fluviatilis). The total landings in the Baltic region were approximately 230 tonnes in 2007, of which over 60% were whitefish and perch. Set gillnet fishing is common along the entire Swedish Baltic coast, however, more than half of the total landings arise from SD Pike (Esox lucius) and pikeperch (Sander lucioperca) are other species caught with set gillnet with mesh-size 110 mm or smaller. These freshwater species are generally caught in specific areas and during short periods of the season. The level of discard is estimated to be low in the catches. Even though the recorded catch of sea trout is low in this métier, it may be sufficient to have a negative impact on weak stocks. Set gillnet is a fishing method being selective regarding size structure (confirmed by national and regional survey data). Concurrent sampling at sea following sampling scheme 1 will be performed on a monthly basis during the main fishing season in the quantitatively most important areas (SD 30 and 31). The métier was selected due to high effort. III.C.3 Data Quality Detailed information on the métiers (including national métiers) and stratification planned for sampling the métiers are available in section III.C.2 and table III.C.3. During the forthcoming years, after the finalisation of the COST project, Sweden will prioritise analytical work to increase quality and knowledge of quality in sampling. The work will include Scientific analysis of possibilities to merge métiers Scientific analysis of necessary sampling levels (no. of trips and length measurements) to reach certain precision levels (length frequencies, discards etc) Cost-benefit analysis of sampling allocation to different métiers Métiers not selected by the ranking have not been selected for discard sampling as stand alone métiers. The main reason for this is that the activity and catches in these métiers are low making sampling difficult and cost ineffective. Métiers not selected by the ranking system are further to a certain extent included in merged métiers that are sampled. These non selected but included métiers are written in Italic in table III_C_2. Sweden has further conducted sampling of discards in some of the non selected métiers (in particular for passive gears in the Baltic) within national projects in earlier years (table 5.2 in old NP tables). In general discard rates (and amounts) are low compared to the selected (merged) métiers. III.C.4 Regional Coordination Regarding bilateral agreements with Denmark and Germany for the Baltic, this has been done for previous years and the intention is to follow up this for the period , in the beginning of Recommendations made in the Baltic are listed below starting with 2008 back to The bilateral agreements and recommendations for 2008 will be submitted in an updated version of the programme. From 2007 Sweden conducts an extended hydro-acoustic herring survey in the Baltic Sub-division 30 within the ICES WGBIFS framework. The extended survey as a part of the P1 hydro-acoustic survey in Sub-divisions has been endorsed by 21

22 ICES, Baltic and COM. From 2008 the survey is coordinated between Finland and Sweden. A formal bilateral agreement on survey calibration and biological sampling of the herring fishery is established see annex 2. Source Recommendation Action Baltic (2008) In order to use the time of the more efficient, the preprocessing of the exchange data tables, namely the merging of the data on fisheries statistics and planned sampling NP proposal tables in the NPs, for the harmonisation of the NPs, including the quality checks, should be carried out before the Baltic (2008) Baltic (2008) Baltic (2008) Baltic (2007) Baltic (2007) Baltic (2007) next. In the NP proposals, a short description of all métiers selected by the 90% ranking procedure should be provided. Such a table would enable to identify whether a métier with the same name covers the same or different fisheries in different NPs. The Baltic recommends that MS follow the request for preparation of the WKSMRF (Workshop on Sampling Methods for Recreational Fisheries), given in the ICES resolution (see Member states are recommended to seek for task sharing when starting ageing new species. THE BALTIC RECOMMENDS THAT ALL MS SUBMIT DATA IN THE AGREED FORMAT WHEN REQUESTED. THE COMPILED REGIONAL DATA SHOULD BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE MEMBERS OF BALTIC WELL BEFORE THE MEETING THE BALTIC RECOMMENDS THAT ALL MS UPLOAD DATA (EFFORT, LANDINGS-ALL SPECIES, SEA-SAMPLING, SAMPLING OF LANDINGS) FOR THE TRAWL FISHERIES TARGETING COD IN THE BALTIC IN ORDER TO ALLOW ANALYSIS OF THE FISHERIES FACILITATING FUTURE TASK SHARING OF DISCARD SAMPLING REGIONAL SAMPLING 4.1 UNTIL ROBUST INTERNATIONAL GUIDELINES FOR ANALYSIS OF LOGBOOK DATA IS AVAILABLE BALTIC MADE A FEW RECOMMENDATIONS HOW TO DEAL WITH ALLOCATION RULES. ACTION WILL BE TAKEN IN 2009 SE HAS ALTREADY INCLUDED A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF ALL MÉTIERS IN PROGRAMME FOR SE WILL PARTICIPATE IN WK AND ACTION WILL BE TAKEN AS RECOMMENDED SE WILL SEEK FOR TASK SHARING IN THESE CASES. SE COMPILED THIS DATA TO THE MEETING IN 2007 AND WILL PREPARE REQUESTED DATA FOR FUTURE MEETING TO GAIN COOPERATION BETWEEN MS IN THE. DONE SE HAS COMPLIED WITH INTERIM ALLOCATION RULES MADE UP IN THE Baltic (2007) Baltic (2006) THE BALTIC RECOMMENDS THE DESCRIPTION OF THE SOURCE OF THE INFORMATION AND WHEN APPLYING A SAMPLING PROCEDURE A DESCRIPTION OF METHOD AND STRATEGY HAS TO BE CLEARLY DESCRIBED IN THE NATIONAL PROGRAMME TO GIVE USEFUL INFORMATION ON QUALITY OF THE OBTAINED DATA. IN THE TECHNICAL REPORT THERE SHOULD THEN BE A QUALITATIVE QUALITY REPORT CONTAINING A THOROUGH DESCRIPTION OF THE METHODS AND STRATEGIES USED AND THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GATHERED DATA. THE BALTIC RECOMMENDS TO NOT USE THE PRECISION LEVEL AS AN INDICATOR OF HETEROGENEITY BUT TO RATHER USE THE MEAN VALUE AND STANDARD DEVIATION. THE BALTIC RECOMMENDS THAT FINLAND AND SWEDEN WILL EVALUATE THE COLLECTION OF BIOLOGICAL DATA OF THE HERRING FISHERY IN THE GULF OF BOTHNIA IN ORDER TO ELABORATE CONGRUENT PROCEDURES. THE POSSIBILITIES TO SE WILL DESCRIBE SAMPLING METHOD AND STRATEGY IN NP FOR A QUALITY REPORT IN TR FOR 2009 WILL BE PRESENTED IN IN 2007 FINLAND AND SWEDEN HAVE CONDUCTED INTER- CALIBRATION IN BOTH AGE READING (COMPARING METHODS) 22

23 Baltic (Jan 2005) Baltic (Jan 2005) Baltic (Jan 2005) Baltic (Jan 2005) Baltic (Jan 2005) Baltic (Oct 2005) Baltic (Oct 2005) Baltic (Oct 2005) HARMONIZE THE COLLECTION OF CORRESPONDING ECONOMIC DATA SHOULD BE EVALUATED. 3.1 BALTIC RECOMMENDS THAT EACH MS ON MONTHLY BASIS UPDATES REAL TIME MONITORING SPREADSHEET GIVING THE ACTUAL SAMPLING STATUS IN EACH COUNTRY AND GIVING THE COVERAGE AS DEFINED ACCORDING TO THE DCR. 3.2 BALTIC RECOMMENDS IN CASE WHERE MORE THAN 5 PERCENT OF THE NATIONAL QUOTA IS LANDED IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, BILATERAL AGREEMENTS SHOULD BE MADE. 3.3 BALTIC RECOMMENDS THAT AN ANALYSIS REVEALING AND COMPARING THE CONSEQUENCES OF DIFFERENT RAISING METHODS IS MADE AS SOON AS EFFORT INFORMATION AND MATCHING RAISING PROCEDURES ARE INCLUDED IN THE FISHFRAME DATABASE. 5.1 THE RECOMMEND THAT BOTH EASTERN AND WESTERN BALTIC COD, OTOLITHS WEIGHT SHOULD ON A ROUTINE BASIS BE COLLECTED AS A COMPLEMENT TO AGE READING. THIS MUST START FROM THE RECOMMENDS THAT SAMPLING SHOULD BE CARRIED OUT THROUGH OUT THE ENTIRE TRI ANNUAL PERIOD BALTIC CONCLUDES THAT MS MUST CONDUCT ANALYSIS OF STABILITY ON THE NATIONAL FLEET THE BALTIC CONCLUDES THAT MS MUST CONDUCT ANALYSIS OF NATIONAL DATA ON WHICH LENGTH GROUPS YIELD THE MOST HOMOGENOUS ECONOMIC STRUCTURE BALTIC CONCLUDES THAT THE TWO ANALYSES SHOULD BE CONDUCTED BEFORE 1ST OF JANUARY THE RESULTS OF THE ANALYSIS SHOULD BE SENT TO JENNY NORD AT THE SWEDISH BOARD OF FISHERIES: AND MATURITY STAGING OF HERRING. HARMONIZATION OF SAMPLING METHODS ARE UNDER DISCUSSION. IMPROVEMENT OF ALL ASPECTS REGARDING THE JOINT ACOUSTIC SURVEY IN SD30 ARE ALSO DISCUSSED AND A MEETING IN END OF MAY 2008 IS PLANNED FOR SUCH DISCUSSIONS. HOWEVER IT IS A GOAL OF SWEDEN TO CONTINUE THE WORK ON HARMONIZING BOTH THE BIOLOGICAL AND ECONOMICAL COLLECTION OF DATA. NOT USED, AND THEREFORE SE HAS NOT FILLED IT IN. BILATERAL AGREEMENTS HAS BEEN DONE YEARLY. AND FOR 2005 THIS WAS DONE BETWEEN SWEDEN AND DENMARK IN JANUARY 2005 AND SWEDEN AND GERMANY IN MAY SWEDEN WILL UPLOAD EFFORT INFORMATION TO FISHFRAME DATABASE IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO ANALYZE DIFFERENT RAISING PROCEDURES. SWEDEN IS RECORDING WEIGHT ON COD OTOLITHS ON A ROUTINE BASIS. SWEDEN IS SAMPLING DATA ON OTHER BIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS EVERY YEAR. IN ORDER TO TEST WHETHER THE SEGMENTATION OF THE NANTES PROPOSAL RESULTS IN A MORE STABLE FLEET IT IS IMPORTANT THAT MS CONDUCT ANALYSIS ON STABILITY (IN THE WAY A VESSEL CHANGE BETWEEN SEGMENTS BETWEEN THE YEARS) ACCORDING TO THE PRESENT DCR AND ACCORDING TO THE NANTES PROPOSAL. TO COMPILE ACCURATE AND USEFUL ECONOMIC DATA IT IS IMPORTANT THAT MS ANALYZE WHICH LENGTH CATEGORIES THAT ACHIEVE THIS GOAL. THE RESULTS FROM THE BALTIC REGION WERE COMPLIED IN ORDER TO SHOW THE SITUATION OF THE COUNTRIES IN THE 23

24 Baltic (Oct 2005) Baltic (Oct 2005) Baltic (Oct 2005) Baltic (Oct 2005) Baltic (Oct 2005) Baltic (Oct 2005) BEFORE THIS DATE. THE COMBINED RESULTS FROM THE BALTIC WILL THEN BE PRESENTED AT THE NEXT WORKSHOP ON FLEET BASED APPROACH IN THE BEGINNING OF THE BALTIC RECOMMENDS THAT ALL MEMBER STATES ATTEMPT TO FILL IN THE MATRIX (SEE ANNEX 4) WITH READILY AVAILABLE EFFORT DATA (BY DEFAULT EXPRESSED IN DAYS AT SEA AND IN NUMBER OF VESSELS FOR 2004) WITH A VIEW TO DEFINING THE FINAL VERSION OF THE MATRIX BEFORE THE 1ST OF JANUARY THE DATA MUST BE SENT TO JENNY NORD (SWEDEN) (JENNY.NORD@FISKERIVERKET.SE) BE-FORE THIS DATE CONCERNING COASTAL SURVEYS: THE BALTIC SUGGESTS THAT THE INCLUSION OF THESE SURVEYS SHOULD BE DISCUSSED AT A NATIONAL LEVEL IN ORDER TO PREPARE A FUTURE DISCUSSION WITHIN DCR BALTIC RECOMMENDS THAT THE WORKSHOP OF WGBIFS SUBGROUP FOR ESTIMATING ANNUAL BASED MATURITY OGIVES OF COD BASED ON TRAWL SURVEY DATA CONVENE IN THE LAST WEEK OF JANUARY 2006 AT MIR, GDYNIA, POLAND THE BALTIC STRONGLY RECOMMENDS ALL BALTIC COUNTRIES TO UPLOAD OR RE-UPLOAD QUALITY CHECKED CA DATA (SMALK DATA) TO THE ICES DATRAS DATABASE BEFORE 1. JANUARY BALTIC RECOMMENDS PROVIDING AGGREGATED MATURITY DATA TO THE ASSESSMENT WORKING GROUPS ON A YEARLY BASIS FOR THOSE STOCKS THAT ARE SAMPLED ON A ROUTINE BASIS YEARLY, IN A FORMAT AGREED BY THE WORKING GROUP BALTIC RECOMMENDS THAT MS UPLOAD LANDING STATISTICS BY FISHING ACTIVITY (LEVEL 6) AND ICES STATISTICAL RECTANGLE FROM 2004 AND 2005 STARTING FROM THE BEGINNING OF 2006 AND PREFERABLE CAN RE- UPLOAD LANDING STATISTICS ON THIS LOW AGGREGATION LEVEL A COUPLE OF YEARS BACK. REGION. THE BALTIC RESULTS WERE PRESENTED AT THE NANTES TRAINING WORKSHOP, MARCH 2006 THE TABLE WERE TO BE FILLED IN ORDER TO IDENTIFIED POSSIBLE PROBLEMS AND ERRORS OF THE MATRIX PROPOSED BY IFREMER. NATIONAL DISCUSSIONS HAVE TAKEN PLACE AND WILL BE FORWARDED TO THE NEXT MEETING IN OCTOBER 2006, AND TO THE MEETING REGARDING REVISION OF THE SURVEYS IN DECEMBER. SWEDEN WAS REPRESENTED BY TWO PARTICIPANTS. SMALK DATA FROM 1991 TO 2005 WAS QUALITY CHECKED AND RE-UPLOADED INTO DATRAS IN JANUARY SWEDEN PREPARE MATURITY DATA ON A YEARLY BASIS WHICH ARE PROVIDED TO THE DIFFERENT WORKING GROUPS. SWEDEN WILL UPLOAD THE REQUIRED DATA WHEN THE DEFINITION OF FISHERIES IS READY. III.C.5 Derogations and non-conformities Fisheries picked by the métier ranking system but not chosen for sampling Pots and traps fisheries targeting freshwater species (FPO_FWS_0_0_0) The fishery with pots and traps targeting freshwater species is restricted both geographically and over time. The main part of the landings is taken in SD 31 by a few fishermen using one specific gear type. Small sized perch (Perca fluviatilis) is the only targeted species in this fishery. The total landings in 2007 for the whole fishery were 8 tonnes of which 75% were 24

25 perch landed in SD 31. Thus, total landings both in tonnes and value is low, but the métier was selected due to high effort. No sampling is planned during the period Longline fisheries targeting demersal fish (LLS_DEF_0_0_0), Subdivision In 2007 the total landing from the métier was 54 tonnes. The landings consist of more than 99% of cod. The fisheries are managed in accordance with the Management plan for Baltic Sea cod (1098/2007) which includes a closed season (April) during the spawning season. The métier is also limited by allowed number of days at sea in accordance with the TAC regulation (1404/2007 annex II). Sweden practices temporal closures on a national basis to fulfill the effort limitation in the regulation. The fishery is further nationally managed by rations, limiting the allowed landing for a 14 day period by vessel. The métier was been included in the sea-sampling programme during The discard rate was found to be below 10%. The ranking of métiers was done at the regional level and the métier was picked by the ranking system (effort, value) due to the importance on fishing ground Sweden will not sample the métier in subdivision due to the very limited landings and asks for a derogation. 25

26 THE NORTH SEA AND EAST ARCTIC III.C.1 Selection of métiers to sample The main input data for the ranking of métiers and the subsequent choice of métiers to sample is information from the logbooks and in the case of small scale fisheries, information from monthly fishing journals. The Swedish logbook is extended compared to the EU logbook. Valuable additional information in the Swedish logbook are the data on a haul to haul basis and detailed geographical information as to where the fishing takes place (lat, long). The fishermen also provide more detailed information of the gears used and the species targeted. Sweden has, for example, for the Bottom Otter Trawl (OTB) 19 national codes, all describing different gear characteristics (incl. selectivity devices) and target species assemblages. Furthermore, it is mandatory for Swedish vessels not carrying logbooks to report their gear, number of fishing days, fishing areas and catches (by species) in monthly fishing journals. When assigning fishing trips to métiers the national gear codes have been assigned to a métier if the national code in combination with the mesh size clearly falls within one DCR métier (level 6). For example, there is a national gear code for fyke nets targeting eel. All fishing trips registered with this gear code have been assigned to FYK_CAT_0_0_0. If the definition of the national gear code allows fishing trips to be allocated to more than one DCR métier (level 6) the fishing trip have been assigned to a métier using the national gear code in combination with the catch composition in weight. The ranking of métiers have been done by region and not by fishing grounds. The reason for this is that region is the relevant spatial unit for some métiers (such as PTM_SPF_16-31_0_0) while fishing ground is more accurate for others. National métiers taking the fishing ground into account have been established for all métiers where the fishing grounds are considered important. The bottom trawl fisheries targeting demersal fish is, for example, considered to be three métiers (IIIaS, IIIaN and IV) since the catch composition at the different fishing grounds are different due to different environmental characteristics (depth, vicinity to the brackish Baltic Sea) and Swedish TAC shares. All selected métiers, including national métiers taking fishing ground (and in a few cases target species), are listed in table III.C.3. Total value of a métier is calculated by using mean values (and weight by species) of the different species. The value is given in EUR. Effort is reported as days at sea. All métiers for which trips have been allocated to are presented in table III.C.1 III.C.2 Data acquisition The extended Swedish logbook and the mandatory monthly fishing journals for vessels not carrying log-books give Sweden the opportunity to have complete information of species composition and weight by species in landings from all métiers, including vessels <10 m. Information from sales slips will further, in relevant cases, provide us with information on composition of commercial size categories in the different métiers. Size categories in Sweden are harmonised to the EU standard. For the métiers selected for sampling the sampling scheme will further provide us with information on length frequencies of the landed part of the catch and volumes of discards. For 26

27 G1 and G2 species length (and age) composition will also be obtained from the discarded part of the catch. Sweden will apply different sampling strategies on different métiers depending on the different characteristics of the métiers. At all sampling occasions information on vessel and gear characteristics as well as place, date, time and duration of the fishing operations will be collected. Main sampling strategies Concurrent sampling of catches at sea This sampling scheme will be applied for métiers where discard rates are expected to be above 10%. In the North Sea region this sampling strategy will be the primary strategy applied to trawls targeting demersal fish and crustaceans (such as OTB_DEF_90-119_0_0 and OTB_CRU_90-119_0_0 ). Data will be collected by staff from Swedish Board of Fisheries (SBF) by sampling on board randomly chosen commercial fishing vessels. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Information to be collected is: - Total weight of discard and landing by all species caught - Separate length distributions of discard and landings by all species caught. If the retained part of the catch is landed in commercial weight categories, separate length frequencies are obtained by category -Otoliths per cm group of discard part of the catch of G1 and G2 species for which Sweden conducts age sampling of landings. In 2009, as a pilotproject, sampling will be performed as self-sampling by fishermen in one métier (OTB_CRU_35-69_1_18). Unsorted random subsamples of the total catch, including by-catches and discard, will be purchased directly from the vessel. Samples are transported to the Swedish Board of Fisheries research laboratories for analysis where information is registered as described above. The sampling procedure will be validated on a regular basis by observers onboard. Concurrent sampling of landings at markets This sampling scheme will be applied for métiers where discard rates are expected to be low. In the North Sea area this sampling strategy will be the primary strategy applied for trawls and seines targeting small pelagic fish (PTM_SPF_16-31_0_0 and PS_SPF_16-31_0_0) and for gillnetters targeting demersal fish (GNS_DEF_ _0_0). Data will be collected by staff from Swedish Board of Fisheries by randomly sampling landings in harbours. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Information to be collected is: - Total weight of landing by all species caught - Length distributions of landings by all species caught. If the landed in commercial weight categories, separate length frequencies are obtained by category For métiers targeting small pelagic fish (PTM_SPF_16-31_0_0 and SN_SPF_16-31_0_0) the information will be based on unsorted sub-samples of the total landing purchased from the 27

28 fishermen, or purchased at different landing ports All these samples are transported to the Swedish Board of Fisheries research laboratories for analysis where length measurements of all species included in the sample are taken. Sweden will during 2009, for some métiers (GNS_DEF_ _0_0), as a complement to the market based concurrent sampling, carry out a pilot project to evaluate if discards in these métiers could be assessed by fishermen bringing the discards ashore. Other Stock specific sampling based on commercial size categories In Sweden all information for landings required by métier are available in the official catch statistics except length distributions. The distribution of landed size categories by métier is however available through sales slips. Commercial size categories in Sweden are well defined and harmonised to EU standards. In order to improve precision of the length distribution for the landed part of the catch, Sweden will for some métiers (such as OTB_DEF_90-119_0_0 and OTB_CRU_90-119_0_0) and stocks, carry out complementary stock specific sampling based on commercial size categories. Other-Stock specific sampling combined with survey data In the métier of fykenet fisheries targeting catadromous species (FYK_CAT_0_0_0) sampling of discards at sea is not considered feasible in all fishing grounds (North Sea SD 20-21, Baltic SD 22-24), due to a high rate of consumption of the discard by shore crabs. Concurrent sampling at sea will be replaced by analysis of data from existing test fishing surveys using fyke nets. Survey data on catch composition and length distributions is available. As a complement, stock-specific sampling of the length distribution of landings will be performed by staff at SBF. Allocation of sampling effort to métiers Sampling effort has been allocated to the métier based on prior sampling, knowledge of variation in the different métiers, importance of different métiers (Swedish share of the métier/ stocks at an international level) and precision targets. Sampling effort is allocated ensuring that the number of trips sampled is at least one per month and métier throughout the fishing season. However, so far, no thorough analysis has been made to optimise number of samples and sample sizes for sampling of all the Swedish métiers. Sweden has been waiting for the finalisation of the COST project to initialise this work. Optimizing sampling and sampling schemes will be a prioritised issue in Sweden in the forthcoming years. Planned number of sampled trips by métier is presented in table III.C.3. Table III.C.4 shows sampling intensity of length measurements of all G1 and G2 species listed in Appendix VII. The sampling strategy for métiers is aiming for a certain number of trips and/or number of hauls, rather than targeting a certain number of individuals to be measured. In the sea sampling programme, Sweden as a rule of thumb takes random subsamples containing approximately: Discards; 100 individuals / haul for cod and other species with a wide length frequency; 50 individuals/haul for other species. Landings; 100 individuals / size category for cod and other species with a wide length frequency; 50 individuals /haul for other species. 28

29 The catch composition and volume in catch is not known beforehand and therefore, numbers of length measured individuals are impossible to predict and plan exactly. In table III.C.4 we have listed number of length measured individuals sampled in 2007 to give a hint of what could be sampled in future trips. Knowledge of CV levels in length measurements are not calculated for all stocks and the sampling approach described above has been used. Column No. of fish necessary to achieve the precision target, has therefore been left blank. Merging of métiers for sampling Métiers with equal or very similar catch composition have been merged for sampling purposes. All merged métiers are presented in table III.C.2. Information on gear characteristics will however be collected at all sampling occasions to identify the original métier sampled. The merging of métiers is for the planned sampling in not always based on thorough scientific analysis but on the knowledge of the exploitation pattern, management of the fisheries and common sense. Scientific analysis of the métiers and the possibilities to merge them based on scientific analysis will be a prioritised issue during the programme period. WKMERGE (2010), in which Sweden will participate will be of great value for the analyses of merging fisheries. Rationale for merging of métiers is expressed below within the description of the different métiers. Description of Swedish métiers that will be sampled. Descriptions of fisheries picked by the métier ranking system but not chosen for sampling are found in III.C.5 Derogations and non-conformities Trawl fisheries targeting demersal fish (OTB_DEF_90-119_0_0), IIIaS In 2007 the total landing from the métier was 238 tonnes. The main targeted species is cod of which 107 tonnes were landed in the métier. The bottom trawl fisheries targeting demersal fish in area IIIaS was historically important but its extense is nowadays very limited due to the poor situation of the Kattegat cod stock. The fishery is predominantly conducted in the first quarter where the catchability of cod is highest. The gears used are managed in accordance with the Cod recovery plan (423/2004) including limitations in allowed number of days at sea in accordance with the TAC regulation (40/2008 annex IIa). At the national level, the landings of the fishery are managed by weekly rations, administered by the Swedish fishermen federation. The fishery is conducted by a variety of different trawls of which some are equipped with selection panels (OTB_DEF_90-119_0_0 OTB_DEF_>120_0_0 OTT_DEF_90-119_0_0 OTB_DEF_90-119_1_120 OTB_DEF_>120_1_120). The relative importance of the different trawls is to a large extent dependent on the trawl specific number of days allowed in the fisheries defined in 40/2008, annex IIa. The annex is however under revision with a clear intention to be simplified but it is difficult to foresee what trawls to be used in the programme period. More scientific analysis is needed on the detailed exploitation pattern for the different trawl but initial analyses show that the overall exploitation pattern is similar. The different trawls will thereby be merged to one métier. The métier has been included in the sea-sampling programme since the mid 1990ies. Discard rates are estimated to be well above 10%. The métier will be sampled concurrently at sea throughout the main fishing season (quarter 1). Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Trawl fisheries targeting demersal fish (OTB_DEF_90-119_0_0), IIIaN 29

30 Trawl fisheries targeting demersal fish in the Skagerrak (IIIaN) could be divided into two national métier based on target species- A trawl fishery targeting cod, saithe and haddock and a trawl fishery targeting witch flounder. The trawl fishery targeting witch flounder is conducted in the deeper part (> 100 m, Norwegian trench) of the Skagerrak. Both fisheries are conducted with a variety of different trawls of which some are equipped with selection panels (OTB_DEF_90-119_0_0 OTB_DEF_>120_0_0 OTT_DEF_90-119_0_0 OTB_DEF_90-119_1_120 OTB_DEF_>120_1_120). The relative importance of the different trawls is to a large extent dependent on the trawl specific number of days allowed in the fisheries defined in 40/2008, annex IIa. The annex is however under revision with a clear intention to be simplified but it is difficult to foresee what trawls to be used in the programme period. More scientific analysis is needed on the detailed exploitation pattern for the different trawl but initial analyses show that the overall exploitation pattern is similar. The different trawls will thereby be merged to one métier (by target species). i) national métier targeting gadoids and saithe In 2007 the total landing from the métier was 670 tonnes. The landings consisted to 80% of the main targeted species saithe, cod and haddock. The fishery could be conducted during the entire year but the main season is usually the 2nd and 3 rd quarter. The gears used are managed in accordance with the Cod recovery plan (423/2004) including limitations in allowed number of days at sea in accordance with the TAC regulation (40/2008 annex IIa). At the national level, the landings of the fishery are managed by weekly rations by species, administered by the Swedish fishermen federation. The poor condition of the North Sea cod stock and the corresponding low TACs have the last 5 years led to depletion of quota and repeated landing prohibitions of cod during parts of the year, with considerable amounts of discards as a consequence. Periods with prohibition to land saithe have also been common during the last few years. The métier has been included in the sea-sampling programme since Discard rates are estimated to be above 10% (discarding predominantly occur for quota reasons). The métier will be sampled concurrently at sea throughout the main fishing season. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Sampling will be stratified by quarter. ii) national métier targeting witch flounder In 2007 the total landing from the métier was 310 tonnes of witch 50% consisted of witch flounder. Important by-catch species are cod, saithe and Nephrops. The fisheries are taking place in the deeper part of the Skagerrak which have an impact on the exploitation pattern, especially concerning more infrequent by-catch species and the discarded part of the catch. The main season for the fishery is the first and to some degree the second quarter of the year. Witch flounder is not a TAC regulated species but the gears used are managed in accordance with the Cod recovery plan (423/2004) including limitations in allowed number of days at sea in accordance with the TAC regulation (40/2008 annex IIa). At the national level, the landings of cod and saithe in the fishery are managed by weekly rations by species, administered by the Swedish fishermen federation. The poor condition of the North Sea cod stock and the corresponding low TACs have the last 5 years led to depletion of quota and repeated landing prohibitions of cod during parts of the year, with considerable amounts of discards as a consequence. Periods with prohibition to land saithe have also been common during the last few years. The métier has been included in the sea-sampling programme since 2002 but has until now not been regarded as a unique métier. Discard rates are estimated to be above 10%. The 30

31 métier will be sampled concurrently at sea throughout the main fishing season. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Sampling will be stratified by quarter. Trawl fisheries targeting crustaceans (OTB_CRU_90-119_0_0), IIIaS Trawl fisheries targeting crustaceans (OTB_CRU_90-119_0_0), IIIaN The bottom trawl fisheries targeting crustaceans with mesh size >=90 mm is a fishery targeting Nephrops in connection with economically important by-catch species such as plaice and cod. In 2007 the total landing of the métier in area IIIaS was 720 tonnes and in area IIIaN 650 tonnes. The total share of Nephrops in the catches is slightly more than 50%. The fisheries are conducted all year. Exploitation pattern differs to some extent between the métiers, especially concerning by-catch species. The gears used are managed in accordance with the Cod recovery plan (423/2004) including limitations in allowed number of days at sea in accordance with the TAC regulation (40/2008 annex IIa). At the national level, the landings of the fishery are managed by weekly rations, administered by the Swedish fishermen federation. The fishery is conducted by a variety of different trawls of which some are equipped with selection panels (OTB_DEF_90-119_0_0 OTB_DEF_>120_0_0 OTT_DEF_90-119_0_0 OTB_DEF_90-119_1_120 OTB_DEF_>120_1_120). The relative importance of the different trawls is to a large extent dependent on the trawl specific number of days allowed in the fisheries defined in 40/2008, annex IIa. The annex is however under revision with a clear intention to be simplified but it is difficult to foresee what trawls to be used in the programme period. More scientific analysis is needed on the detailed exploitation pattern for the different trawl but initial analyses show that the overall exploitation pattern is similar. The different trawls will thereby be merged to one métier. The poor condition of the Kattegat and North Sea cod stocks and the corresponding low TACs have the last 5 years led to depletion of quota and repeated landing prohibitions of cod during parts of the year, with considerable amounts of discards as a consequence. The métiers have been included in the sea-sampling programme since the mid 1990ies (IIIaS) and late 1990ies (IIIaN). Discard rates are estimated to be well above 10% for both métiers. The métiers will be sampled concurrently at sea throughout the fishing season. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Sampling will be stratified by quarter. Trawl fisheries targeting crustaceans (OTB_CRU_70-89_2_35), IIIaS Trawl fisheries targeting crustaceans (OTB_CRU_70-89_2_35), IIIaN Trawl fisheries using sorting grids and a mesh size between mm are exclusively targeting Nephrops. In 2007 the total landing of the métier in area IIIaS was 100 tonnes and in area IIIaN 420 tonnes. The total share of Nephrops in the catches was 95%. The fisheries have unlimited number of days at sea in accordance to regulation 40/2008 annex IIa. In accordance with the regulation, catches further need to be composed by at least 70% Nephrops (maximum 5% cod). It is according to Swedish national legislation, mandatory to use sorting grids inside 4 nautical miles (3 in the IIIaS) in the Nephrops fisheries. The fisheries are conducted all year around. The majority of the fisheries are conducted with otter bottom trawls even though some fishermen are using twin trawls. The exploitation pattern of the gears is the same and the métiers OTB_ CRU_70-89_2_35 and OTT_ CRU_70-89_2_35 is thereby merged. The métiers have been included in the sea-sampling programme since 2004 when the gear was introduced. Discard rates are estimated to be above 10%, mainly due to capture of 31

32 undersized Nephrops. The métiers will be sampled concurrently at sea throughout the fishing season. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Sampling will be stratified by quarter. Trawl fisheries targeting crustaceans (OTB_CRU_35-69_0_0), IIIa, IV The bottom trawl fisheries targeting crustaceans with mesh size mm is a fishery targeting Pandalus. In 2007 was the total landing of the métier 2120 tonnes of which the total share of Pandalus in the catches was 80%. The fishery is conducted all year around. At the national level, the landings of the fishery are managed by weekly rations, administered by the Swedish fishermen federation. The métiers have been included in the sea-sampling programme on a triennial basis since Discard rates are estimated to be above 10%. The métiers will be sampled concurrently at sea throughout the fishing season. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Sampling will be stratified by quarter. Trawl fisheries targeting crustaceans (OTB_CRU_35-69_1_18), IIIa, IV Trawl fisheries using sorting grids and a mesh size between mm are exclusively targeting Pandalus. In 2007 was the total landing of the métier 615 tonnes of which the total share of Pandalus in the catches was 99%. It is according to Swedish national legislation, mandatory to use sorting grids inside 4 nautical miles (3 in the IIIaS) in the Pandalus fisheries.the fisheries are conducted all year around. The métiers have been included in the sea-sampling programme on a triannual basis since 1999 but has until now not been regarded as a unique métier. Discard rates are estimated to be above 10%, mainly due to capture of undersized Pandalus. Sweden will during 2009 as complements to concurrent sampling at sea, carry out a pilot project to evaluate if discards in the métier could be assessed by fishermen bringing the discards ashore. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Sampling will be stratified by quarter. Pot and trap fisheries targeting crustaceans (FPO_CRU_0_0_0), IIIa The fishery is conducted in coastal waters along the Swedish west coast (area IIIaN and IIIaS). The total annual landing was 400 tonnes in The major target species is Nephrops but there are also fishermen targeting crabs (Cancer pagurus) and lobsters (Homarus gammarus). The fisheries for Nephrops and crabs are taking place all year around while the lobster fishery is concentrated to the autumn. Survival rates of discards are high and the discard rates (in terms of fishing mortality) are estimated to be below 10%. The pot and trap fishery targeting Nephrops will be sampled concurrently at sea throughout the year. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Sampling will be stratified by quarter. Trawl fisheries targeting small pelagic fish (PTM_SPF_32-69_0_0), IIIa In 2007 the total annual landing from the métier was tonnes. The landings constitutes exclusively (>99%) of the target species herring and sprat. The fisheries are conducted all year around except for a closed period during summer. The fishery is nationally managed by yearly rations, limiting the allowed landing by vessel. The majority of the catches (94% in 2007) are taken by pair trawlers using a mesh size >= 32 mm. However, to some extent other trawls and mesh sizes are used within the fisheries. The métiers PTM_SPF_32-69_0_0, 32

33 PTM_SPF_16-31_0_0, OTM_SPF_32-69_0_0, OTM_SPF_16-31_0_0, OTB_SPF_32-69_0_0 and OTB_SPF_16-31_0_0 are thereby merged. The métier was included in the sea sampling programme Discard rates are estimated to be below 10%. The métier will be sampled concurrently in harbours/at markets by purchasing unsorted samples. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Sampling will be stratified by quarter and fishing ground (IIIaS, IIIaN). The assumption for the planned number of trip is that the fishery is conducted all year around (except closed season) at both fishing grounds. Purse seine fisheries targeting small pelagic fish (PS_SPF_16-32_0_0), IIIa In 2007 the total annual landing from the métier was 5320 tonnes. The landings constitutes exclusively (>99%) of the target species herring and sprat. The fishery is taking place in coastal waters along the Swedish west coast (area IIIaN and IIIaS) during the 1 st and 4 th quarter. The fishery is nationally managed by yearly rations, limiting the allowed landing by vessel. The majority of the catches (>99% in 2007) are taken by pair trawlers using a mesh size mm, but to a very limited extent mesh sizes >= 32 mm are used. The métiers PS_SPF_32-69_0_0 and PS_SPF_16-31_0_0 are thereby merged. The métier was included in the sea sampling programme Discard rates are estimated to be below 10%. The métier will be sampled concurrently in harbours/at markets. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. Sampling will be stratified by quarter. Fyke net fisheries targeting catadromous species (FYK_CAT_0_0_0), IIIaS Fishing for yellow eel (Anguilla anguilla) with small fyke nets is concentrated to the coastal areas of the Skagerrak (IIIaN), the Kattegat (IIIaS). The total annual landings in this fishery were 168 tonnes in Discards are estimated to be above 10%. Due to a high abundance of shore crabs, eating most of the fish by-catch, concurrent sampling of catches at sea is considered not possible with reasonable costs. Survey data on catch composition exist for long time series that will provide a good proxy for discards in the commercial fyke net fishery. Stock specific sampling of yellow eel will be applied on a monthly basis with special focus on the Skagerrak area, where most of the yellow eel is landed. Sampling of this fishery will be coordinated with sampling of the fyke fishery targeting yellow eel in the Baltic region. The métier was selected due to high effort. for discard Gillnet fisheries targeting demersal fish (GNS_DEF_ _0_0), IIIaS The total landing in 2007 from gillnets fisheries targeting demersal fish in the Kattegat was 145 tonnes. The landings constitutes predominantly of flatfishes but also of cod and lumpfish. The fisheries are conducted all year around but the target species could differ between seasons. A variety of mesh sizes are used in the gillnet fisheries as well as a mixture of set gillnets and trammel nets. Set gillnets and trammel nets as well as the different mesh sizes (GNS_DEF_ _0_0, GTR_DEF_ _0_0, GTR_DEF_70-89_0_0, GTR_DEF_90-99_0_0, GTR_DEF_ _0_0, GTR_DEF_>220_0_0, GNS_DEF_70-89_0_0, GNS_DEF_90-99_0_0, GNS_DEF_ _0_0 and GNS_DEF_>220_0_0) have thereby been merged for sampling purposes. The métier has so far not been sampled for discards. The métier will be sampled concurrently in harbours (markets) throughout the main fishing season. Sampling scheme 1 will be applied. 33

34 Sweden will during 2009, as a complement to the market based concurrent sampling, carry out a pilot project to evaluate if discards in the métier could be sampled after fishermen bringing the discards ashore. III.C.3 Data Quality Detailed information on the métiers (including national métiers) and stratification planned for sampling the métiers are available in section III.C.2 and table III.C.3. During the forth coming years, after the finalisation of the COST project, Sweden will prioritise analytical work to increase quality and knowledge of quality in sampling. The work will include Scientific analysis of possibilities to merge métiers Scientific analysis of necessary sampling levels (no. of trips and length measurements) to reach certain precision levels (length frequencies, discards etc) Cost-benefit analysis of sampling allocation to different métiers Métiers not selected by the ranking have not been selected for discard sampling as stand alone métiers. The main reason for this is that the activity and catches in these métiers are low making sampling difficult and cost ineffective. Métiers not selected by the ranking system are further to a certain extent included in merged métiers that are sampled. These non selected but included métiers are written in Italic in table III_C_2. Sweden has further conducted sampling of discards in some of the non selected métiers (in particular for passive gears in the Baltic) within national projects in earlier years (table 5.2 in old NP tables). In general discard rates (and amounts) are low compared to the selected (merged) métiers. III.C.4 Regional Coordination Regarding bilateral agreements with Denmark and Germany for the North Sea (the Skagerrak and Kattegat), this has been done for previous years and the intention is to follow up this for the period , in the beginning of Task sharing (sampling and reading of otoliths for a few species) was discussed during the meeting in 2008 and will be described in the agreements. The bilateral agreements will be submitted as soon as they are finished. Recommendations made in the North Sea and East Arctic is listed below starting with 2008 back to Source Recommendation Action North Sea In order to use the time of the more efficient, the preprocessing of the exchange data tables, namely the merging of & East the data on fisheries statistics and planned sampling NP Arctic proposal tables in the NPs, for the harmonisation of the NPs, including the quality checks, should be carried out before the (2008) NS & EA (2008) NS & EA (2008) NS & EA (2008) next. In the NP proposals, a short description of all métiers selected by the 90% ranking procedure should be provided. Such a table would enable to identify whether a métier with the same name covers the same or different fisheries in different NPs. Stock variables: Minimum required taxonomical levels for identification Stock variables: Group 3 on a higher taxonomical level ACTION WILL BE TAKEN IN 2009 SE HAS ALTREADY INCLUDED A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF ALL MÉTIERS IN PROGRAMME FOR AFTER APPROVAL BY STECF, SE WILL ADOPT THE CHANGES AFTER APPROVAL BY STECF, SE WILL ADOPT THE CHANGES 34

35 NS & EA (2008) North Sea & East Arctic (2007) North Sea & East Arctic (2007) North Sea & East Arctic (2007) North Sea & East Arctic (2007) North Sea & East Arctic (2006) North Sea & East Arctic (2006) North Sea (2005) North Sea (2005) North Sea (2005) North Sea Stock variables: Recommended changes in G-status THE NS&EA RECOMMENDS THAT ALL MS SUBMIT DATA IN THE AGREED FORMAT WHEN REQUESTED. THE REGIONAL DATA SHOULD BE COMPILED WELL BEFORE THE MEETING AND BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE PARTICIPANTS. THE NS&EA RECOMMENDS THAT, AT A TRIP LEVEL, OR AT A FISHING OPERATION LEVEL WHEN POSSIBLE, THE RETAINED PART OF THE CATCH SHOULD BE CLASSIFIED BY TARGET ASSEMBLAGE (CRUSTACEANS, CEPHALOPODS, DEMERSAL, ) AND SORTED BY WEIGHT (BY TOTAL VALUE IN THE CASE OF VALUABLE CRUSTACEAN SPECIES, E.G. NEPHROPS). THE TARGET ASSEMBLAGE THAT COMES UP AT THE FIRST POSITION SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS THE TARGET ASSEMBLAGE TO REPORT IN THE MATRIX. THE NS&EA UNDERSTANDS THAT THIS WAY OF DOING DOES NOT ALLOCATE ANY INFORMATION TO THE MÉTIERS TARGETING MIXED TARGET ASSEMBLAGES. THE NS&EA RECOMMENDS THAT IN GENERAL IF AN AREA IS COVERED BY ONE DEDICATED TRIP PER YEAR ONLY, THE EFFORT PUT INTO THIS SINGLE TRIP COULD BETTER BE ALLOCATED TO OTHER FLEET SEGMENTS ENSURING BETTER COVERAGE OF THESE SEGMENTS. THE FURTHER RECOMMENDS UPDATING THE LIST OF ONBOARD OBSERVER TRIPS BY FISHING ACTIVITY ON LEVEL 6 BEFORE THE NEXT MEETING. THE NS&EA RECOMMENDS THAT ALL MS TAKE PART IN THE CASE STUDY ON SPATIAL ASPECTS ON GROWTH PATTERNS FOR NORTH SEA COD BY SUBMITTING DATA TO FRANCE USING THE TEMPLATE IN ANNEX 6. NS AND EA TO UPLOAD THE LANDINGS AND EFFORT STATISTICS INTO FISHFRAME TOGETHER WITH THE ASSOCIATED DATA FROM MARKET AND ON- BOARD SAMPLING, FOR ALL SPECIES WITHIN THE REMITS OF THE WGNSSK BY APRIL 1 ST, THE NS &EA RECOMMENDS THAT DENMARK AND SWEDEN PREPARE A WORKING DOCUMENT PROPOSING HOW REGIONAL DATA COLLECTION COULD BE ARRANGED BY USING THE KATTEGAT AS A TEST ARE. THE WD WILL BE PRESENTED AT WGBFAS 2007 AND FOR THE S. 7.1 NORTH SEA EXPECTS THAT ALL LABS WILL UPDATE THE SPREADSHEET WITH THEIR COD SAMPLING INFORMATION ON A MONTHLY BASIS. 8.1 NORTH SEA RECOMMENDS THAT ALL COUNTRIES HAVING DATA ON NS COD PARTICIPATE IN THE PROPOSED WORKSHOP ON FISHFRAME (CHAIR: HENRIK DEGEL, MID-JANUARY 2006, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK). 9.1 NORTH SEA RECOMMENDED THAT DATA ARE SUBMITTED TO FISHFRAME, STARTING WITH THE 2004 AND 2005 DATA FOR NORTH SEA COD BEFORE 1 MAY NORTH SEA INSISTS THAT ALL COUNTRIES PARTICIPATE IN THE EXERCISE OF COMPARING AFTER APPROVAL BY STECF, SE WILL ADOPT THE CHANGES SE COMPILED THIS DATA TO THE MEETING IN 2007 AND WILL PREPARE REQUESTED DATA FOR FUTURE MEETING TO GAIN COOPERATION BETWEEN MS IN THE. SE WILL REPORT FISHING ACTIVITY DATA IN THE FLEET-FISHERY MATRIX ACCORDING TO THE RECOMMENDATIONS MADE. SE WILL CONTRIBUTE WITH THIS INFORMATION. NO DATA HAS BEEN SENT. DONE NOT FULFILLED TO WGBFAS. THE PROCESS WILL START BY FILLING IN SUGGESTED TABLES DESCRIBING THE PRESENT SAMPLING METHODS. SWEDEN HAS NOT UPDATED THE SPREADSHEET. SWEDEN WAS REPRESENTED BY ONE PARTICIPANT IN THE FISHFRAME WORKSHOP DATA WILL BE DELIVERED BEFORE 1 ST JUNE DONE 35

36 (2005) SAMPLING STRATEGIES ON COMMERCIAL CATCHES AND DISCARDS BY PROVIDING THE RELEVANT INFORMATION TO THE SWEDISH COORDINATORS. North Sea (2005) North Sea (2005) North Sea (2005) North Sea (2005) North Sea (2004) North Sea (2004) North Sea (2004) North Sea (2004) 14.1 NORTH SEA AGREED THAT IN ORDER TO CO- ORDINATE ACTIVITIES EFFECTIVELY THERE WAS A NEED TO DEVELOP A BETTER METHOD OF PRESENTING THE COVERAGE DISCARD SAMPLING AND THE NETHERLANDS HAVE AGREED TO PREPARE A TEMPLATE BASED ON FLEET SEGMENTATION (CURRENTLY UNDER REVIEW) AND CIRCULATE BEFORE NEXT YEAR S MEETING NORTH SEA RECOMMENDED THAT WHERE DISCARD SAMPLING COVERAGE IS RESTRICTED TO A LOW LEVEL, THE COUNTRY CONCERNED, CONSIDERS THE INPUTS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES AND ENTER INTO BILATERAL AGREEMENTS WHERE APPROPRIATE NORTH SEA STRONGLY SUPPORTS THE INITIATIVE TO DEVELOP A DISCARD ATLAS AS IT IS REGARDED AS A MOVE WHICH WOULD PROVIDE USEFUL INFORMATION TO SUPPORT DECISION MAKING IN THE COORDINATION OF DISCARD SURVEYS THE NORTH SEA REITERATES ITS 2004 RECOMMENDATION ON THE CONCLUSION OF FORMAL BILATERAL AGREEMENTS ON THE SAMPLING OF FOREIGN FLAG VESSELS, AND ON THE INCLUSION OF THESE AGREEMENTS IN THE MS NATIONAL PROGRAMME PROPOSALS NS RECOMMENDS THAT THE DCR SHOULD MOVE TO MÉTIER BASED SAMPLING PROGRAMME. FURTHER IT SUGGESTS THAT RATHER THAN ESTABLISH A COMPLETE LIST OF NATIONAL MÉTIERS WHICH COULD TAKE A CONSIDERABLE TIME TO BE AGREED, SGRN SHOULD BE REQUESTED TO ENDORSE THE DEFINITION OF A MÉTIER BASED ON WORK OF EXPERT GROUPS SUCH AS SGDFF AS PART OF THE UPCOMING REVISION OF THE REGULATION. THIS DEFINITION SHOULD BE USED BY MS TO DETERMINE THEIR MÉTIER LIST WHICH CAN BE REVIEWED IN FUTURE BY THE COMMISSION RECOMMENDS THAT MS START BILATERAL TALKS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, WITH A VIEW TO ESTABLISHING BILATERAL AGREEMENTS ON THE ISSUE OF FOREIGN FLAG VESSEL SAMPLING IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT DATA FOR THE NORTH SEA COD STOCK SHOULD BE ENTERED INTO THE SAMPLING STATUS SPREADSHEET COVERING THE DATA COLLECTED DURING 2005 WHICH WILL BE HOSTED ON THE WEBSITE OF DIFRES ( NS RECOMMENDS THAT MS CARRY OUT A PRECISION ANALYSIS ON AT LEAST ONE SELECTED STOCK FROM WITHIN THE NS REGION, USING THE GUIDELINES AND PROTOCOLS SUGGESTED AT THE SWEDEN WILL PREPARE DATA AS SOON AS THE TEMPLATES ARE DELIVERED. WHEN GREATER KNOWLEDGE OF OTHER COUNTRIES DISCARD SAMPLING PROGRAMMES IS ACHIEVED, SWEDEN WILL DO THIS WHERE NECESSARY SWEDEN WAS REPRESENTED BY ONE PARTICIPANTS IN THE DISCARD ATLAS MEETING IN ISPRA (2006). SWEDEN WILL ALSO TAKE PART IN THE STEERING COMMITTEE. BILATERAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN SWEDEN AND DENMARK AND SWEDEN AND GERMANY WERE UPDATED IN FIRST QUARTER OF SWEDEN WAS PARTICIPATING IN THE FIRST FLEET BASED APPROACH MEETINGS IN NANTES 2005 WHERE THE FLEET MATRIX WAS SUGGESTED. WE HAVE PREPARED FLEET DATA FOR BOTH S WHICH WERE REQUESTED. WE HAVE ALSO PARTICIPATED IN THE HANDS-ON WORKSHOP WHICH TOOK PLACE IN FEBRUARY A BILATERAL MEETING WAS HELD BETWEEN DENMARK AND SWEDEN IN JANUARY 2005 AND AN AGREEMENT WAS ESTABLISHED. THE SAMPLING SPREADSHEET WAS ESTABLISH FOR BOTH THE BALTIC AND THE NORTH SEA AND SWEDEN TOOK ACTIVE PART IN THE DEVELOPMENT. THE SPREADSHEET HAS NOT BEEN USED BY ANY COUNTRY INCLUDING SWEDEN. PRECISION LEVEL ON COD IN SKAGERRAK WAS CALCULATED AND BROUGHT TO THE MEETING. 36

37 North Sea (2004) North Sea (2004) North Sea (2004) North Sea (2004) North Sea (2004) PRECISION WORKSHOP HELD IN NANTES THE RESULTS OF THIS ANALYSIS SHOULD BE REPORTED BACK TO THE NS IN TIME TO BE CONSIDERED AT ITS NEXT MEETING NS RECOMMENDS THAT IN ALL CASES THE MEASURED WEIGHT (EITHER GUTTED OR WHOLE) SHOULD BE RECORDED RATHER THAT WEIGHTS DERIVED FROM GUTTED/WHOLE WEIGHT CONVERSION FACTORS NS AGREED THAT A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF THE LEVEL OF MATURITY SAMPLING AND SAMPLING COVERAGE BY AREA AND TIME SHOULD BE CARRIED OUT AND PRESENTED TO THE NEXT MEETING OF THE WITH A VIEW OF ESTABLISHING TASK SHARING AGREEMENTS FROM 2007 ONWARDS. IT WAS AGREED THAT BELGIUM WOULD TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DEMERSAL SPECIES AND THE NETHERLANDS WOULD DESCRIBE THE SITUATION IN RELATION TO PELAGIC SPECIES. 8.1 NS RECOMMENDS FURTHER WORK TO BE DONE ON HOW TO LINK BIOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC DATA. IN THIS CONTEXT, THE POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS ON THE COLLECTION OF ECONOMIC DATA ALSO NEED TO BE FURTHER EXPLORED. IN ANTICIPATION OF RESULT FROM SUCH WORK, NS RECOMMENDS THAT MS, IN THE MEANTIME, SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO COLLECT ECONOMIC DATA IN A WAY THAT MAKES IT POSSIBLE TO DO REGIONAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS. NS RECOMMENDS THAT THERE SHOULD BE A FORUM FOR REGIONAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ALSO IN THE FUTURE. ANALYSES OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN SPECIFIC REGIONS HAVE BEEN DONE WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF CONCERTED ACTION PROJECT THAT WILL END THIS YEAR. THERE IS A NEED, ALSO IN FUTURE, OF A FORUM WHERE THIS KIND OF WORK IS DONE 9.1 THE NS AGREED THAT THE FISHFRAME DATABASE SHOULD BE USED ON A EXPLORATORY BASIS TO INPUT RAW LEVEL DATA FROM 2004 FROM BOTH EU AND NON-EU COUNTRIES. COUNTRIES SHOULD UPLOAD DATA IN TIME TO BE USED BY THE STOCK COORDINATORS OF THE WGNSSK BY MAY A DATABASE SUBGROUP (CHAIRED BY HENRIK DEGEL) WILL PROVIDE GUIDELINES FOR DATA ENTRY AND THE TIMING OF DATA SUBMISSION. IT S DIFFICULT TO ACT ON THIS RECOMMENDATION AS LONG AS DATA ARE HANDLED ON A NATIONAL LEVEL. LEVEL OF MATURITY SAMPLING AND SAMPLING COVERAGE WERE REPORTED AS REQUESTED PRIOR TO THE MEETING. (NUMBER INDIVIDUALS PER ICES RECTANGLE AND MONTH). THE OVERVIEW HIGHLIGHTED SEVERAL IMPORTANT ASPECTS REGARDING MATURITY SAMPLING, STAGING, TIMING OF SAMPLING ETC. THESE ASPECTS ARE PLANNED TO BE TAKEN CARE OF WITHIN MATURITY WORKSHOPS IN WHICH SWEDEN WILL PARTICIPATE. IN ORDER TO CONDUCT BIO-ECONOMIC MODELLING THERE IS A NEED TO ESTABLISH A CLEAR LINK BETWEEN BIOLOGICAL AND ECONOMICAL DATA. THE CONCERTED ACTION PROJECT WILL BE REPLACED BY THE NEW DATA REGULATION ANALYSIS. THE STECF SUBGROUPS ON ECONOMIC AFFAIRS WILL MEET ON THE MAY TO DISCUSS HOW THE TRANSITION FROM THE CONCERTED ACTION PROJECT INTO THE NEW DATA REGULATION CAN BE MADE. RECOMMENDATION FULFILLED. III.C.5 Derogations and non-conformities Fisheries picked by the métier ranking system but not chosen for sampling Trawl fisheries targeting demersal fish (OTB_DEF_90-119_0_0), IV 37

38 In 2007 the total landing from the métier was 1315 tonnes. The landings consisted to 90% of the main targeted species saithe, cod and haddock. Only a few vessels (approx.10) are involved in the fishery and the total number of fishing days are low (approx 350). The fishery is conducted during the entire year. The bulk of the landings take place in Denmark. The gears used are managed in accordance with the Cod recovery plan (423/2004) including limitations in allowed number of days at sea in accordance with the TAC regulation (40/2008 annex IIa). At the national level, the landings of the fishery are managed by weekly rations by species, administered by the Swedish fishermen federation. The métier was included in the sea-sampling programme during Discard rates were found to be below 10%. The fisheries are further predominantly performed in the Norwegian zone where it is prohibited to discard. Sweden will not sample the métier during due to i) a low share of landings at the European level, ii) a majority of landings taking place in foreign countries and iii) discards presumably below 10%. Sweden thereby asks for derogation. Trawl fisheries targeting demersal fish (OTB_DEF_<16_0_0), IIIaN, IV In 2007 the total landing from the métier was 7847 tonnes. The landings consist of 100% sandeel. The fishery takes place during a very limited season in springtime. The métier is managed in accordance with the TAC regulation (40/2008 annex IId). All landings take place in Denmark. Sweden will not sample the métier during due to i) a low share of landings at the European level and ii) a majority of landings taking place in foreign countries. Sweden thereby asks for derogation. Trawl fisheries targeting small pelagic fish (PTM_SPF_32-69_0_0), IV In 2007 the total annual landing from trawl fisheries targeting small pelagic fish in the North Sea was tonnes. The landings constitutes of the target species herring, mackerel or blue whiting. The fisheries could be conducted all year but were in 2007 concentrated to the 3 rd and 4 th quarter. The fishery is conducted both with pair trawl and single trawls and the métiers PTM_SPF_32-69_0_0 and OTM_SPF_32-69_0_0 are consequently merged. The fishery is nationally managed by yearly rations, limiting the allowed landing by vessel. Predominately the landings take place in Denmark. Sweden has a low share of EU quota of the target species and asks for a derogation not to sample the métier. Purse seine fisheries targeting small pelagic fish (PS_SPF_32-69_0_0), IV In 2007 the total annual landing from purse seine fisheries targeting small pelagic fish in the North Sea was 7550 tonnes. The landings constitutes of the target species herring and mackerel. The fisheries were in 2007 concentrated to the 2 nd and 3 rd quarter. The fishery is nationally managed by yearly rations, limiting the allowed landing by vessel. Predominately the landings take place in Denmark. Sweden has a low share of EU quota of the target species and asks for a derogation not to sample the métier. Hand and pole line fishery targeting finfish (LHM_FIF_0_0_0), IIIa, IV The hand and pole line fishery is mainly conducted in coastal waters of Kattegat (IIIaS) and Skagerrak (IIIaN). In 2007 the total annual landing was 112 tonnes. The main target species are mackerel and cod. The fisheries are concentrated to the 2 nd and 3 rd quarter and are predominantly preformed by small vessels. Discard rates are assumed to be below 10%. The métier was picked by the ranking system because of effort. Sweden asks for derogation to sample the métier. 38

39 Gillnet fisheries targeting small pelagic fish (GNS_SPF_50-69_0_0), IIIa, IV The gillnet fishery targeting small pelagic fish is mainly conducted in coastal waters of the Kattegat (IIIaS) and the Skagerrak (IIIaN). In 2007 the total annual landing was 52 tonnes. The main target species are herring and mackerel. The fisheries are conducted all year around but are most frequent in the 2 nd and 3 rd quarter, and are predominantly preformed by small vessels. Discard rates are assumed to be below 10%. The métier was picked by the ranking system because of effort. Sweden asks for derogation to sample the métier. Gillnet fisheries targeting demersal fish (GNS_DEF_ _0_0), IIIaN In 2007 was the total annual landing 130 tonnes from gillnet fisheries targeting demersal fish in the Skagerrak. The fishery is very diverse and the landings constitutes of different species such as spurdog, cod, plaice and pollack. A variety of mesh sizes are used in the gillnet fisheries as well as a mixture of set gillnets and trammel nets. Set gillnets and trammel nets as well as the different mesh sizes (GNS_DEF_ _0_0, GTR_DEF_ _0_0, GTR_DEF_70-89_0_0, GTR_DEF_90-99_0_0, GTR_DEF_ _0_0, GTR_DEF_>220_0_0, GNS_DEF_70-89_0_0, GNS_DEF_90-99_0_0, GNS_DEF_ _0_0 and GNS_DEF_>220_0_0) have been merged. The high variability in catches and gear as well as the relatively low total landing in the métier makes it difficult to sample the métier for length distributions with precision in a costeffective way. Sweden will therefore not sample the métier and asks for a derogation. Gillnet fisheries targeting demersal fish (GNS_DEF_ _0_0), IV The Swedish gillnet fisheries in the North Sea are very limited. In 2007 no such fishery occurred. The métier was picked due to the relative greater importance of the fishery in area IIIaS and IIIaN. Sweden will consequently not sample gillnetters in the North Sea. 39

40 III.D Biological - Recreational fisheries THE BALTIC SEA Concerns cod and salmon. Recreational fishery for eel is not permitted. III.D.1 Data acquisition Salmon Swedish recreational salmon fishery in the Baltic region takes place in rivers, at the coast and in the sea. Data on landings from the recreational fishery for salmon in the three areas is collected as described in the pilot study in 2003 (Anon. 2003). Catch data on salmon and sea trout are collected annually from all salmon rivers (approximately 20). Salmon fishery in Swedish rivers is carried out almost exclusively by non-commercial fishermen. The fishery categories are: Angling Broodstock fishery (catch of spawners used for rearing purposes) Net, seine fishery or fishery with trapnets by recreational fishermen Trapnet fishery by licensed fishermen in two rivers Statistics are from logbooks (coastal journals) for licensed fishermen. Data from other kinds of fishery are collected by enquiries or surveys. In many rivers there are several Fishery Management Areas, fishing clubs or other organizations that are managing the fishery. They are also collecting statistics of the fishery. Unfortunately the interest for collection of data is highly variable among the local organizations and fishermen and this leads to a large variability in the accuracy and preciseness of the collected data. As no national regulation exists that requires collection of fishery statistics from recreational fishermen, many fishermen are difficult to motivate in following local rules in particular when the surveillance is incomplete. Coastal salmon fishery takes place almost exclusively with trapnets. Most of these are operated by commercial fishermen, who are obliged to use logbooks. However, some of the trapnets are operated by recreational fishermen without obligations to report. In order to estimate their catch, data is used on catches in nearby trapnets operated by commercial fishermen. A survey of the number and distribution of trapnets between recreational and commercial fishermen was carried out in 2003 and Information on the number of trapnets operated by different categories of fishermen in these years and the concurrent catch by commercial fishermen was used to calculate the coastal catch by recreational fishermen in these years. Recreational salmon catch in the offshore region is dominated by trolling in the southern Baltic. An investigation was carried out within the framework of the pilot study in 2003 to get an overview of the trolling fishery and catches in year 2002 (Anon. 2003). This study was repeated in The investigations consisted of enquiries to trolling fishermen and collection of fishery statistics from the most important trolling fishery harbours in southern Sweden. Estimated catch figures in 2002 and 2007 did not differ substantially indicating that the fishery may be relatively constant. This suggests that an estimate of the recreational catch by trolling in the investigated years can be used as a constant to be used also in the intermediate years without investigation. The resulting catch data on recreational fisheries are summarized and reported to the relevant ICES Working Group (WGBAST). 40

41 Cod In Sweden, estimation of cod caught in the recreational fishery will be estimated in a national postal enquiry which is planned to be undertaken in 2009 and performed in two steps. In the first step, inhabitants between 16 and 74 years of age will be randomly selected from the register held by Statistics Sweden. This enquiry is simple and easy to answer and the aim is to catch the inhabitants that actually performed recreational fishery during In the second step, the persons who were actively fishing during 2008 will receive a more comprehensive postal enquiry. This enquiry has 21 questions to be answered and the results will give a picture of the recreational fishery regarding gears used, number of days, species composition in the catch and the size of the catch (in kg) and fishing area. The results will be statistically analysed (with the details given in the report from this study) and presented by area (Skagerrak, Kattegat, The Sound, the Southern part, the main basin and the Northern part of the Baltic. Areas of national interest like freshwater and rivers will also be covered within this study. Within all the areas it will be possible to present the results (catch and effort) at an even more detailed level, in rectangles with the size 60 *60 km. This study will cover all the important species caught in the recreational fishery where cod is one of these species. Sweden participated in the workshop on Sampling Methods for recreational Fisheries (WKSMRF) in April The major outcome from the workshop was that there is no simple standardized method which can be applied in all areas due to big differences in recreational fisheries in the MS. Recommendations made in the WKSMRF report will be evaluated later this year and no guidelines exists at the moment. Sweden will therefore perform the sampling as planned and described above, during 2009 and evaluate the results from this sampling setup and report the result in Experts at the meeting agreed that it would be difficult or in many cases impossible to achieve a CV of 20% for the recreational fishery statistics. This conclusion will probably have major implications for future planning. III.D.2 Data quality Salmon As indicated in the preceding description there are three important components of the recreational salmon fishery and the situation is quite different in them. In rivers many kinds of fishery are operating and the organization of the fishery is also very variable. A survey was carried out in to investigate how the management organizations considered their tasks concerning collection of fishery data and what they thought about their quality. As might be expected there were considerable differences among the answers. The idea has been to evaluate these results and try to improve the collection of data in areas where the quality is particularly poor. This will take place in It is expected that these efforts will give a better basis for estimating the preciseness of the collected data. At present it is not possible to estimate error levels in catch estimates. The recreational coastal trapnet fishery which is carried out with gears in the métier FPO_ANA_0_0_0 is diminishing in importance. Surveys of the number of gears operated by commercial and recreational fishermen are carried out with a few years interval and they give a basis for an estimate of the catches by recreational fishermen. Sampling takes place of 41

42 commercial fishery in the métier FPO_ANA_0_0_0 and it gives a basis for estimates of catch composition and length distributions also in the recreational fishery. Most trolling fishery in the Baltic takes place in Sub-division 25 and many of the boats use the same harbour for their boats (Simrishamn). This gives a possibility to get access to voluntary records made by fishermen when they return to the harbour after a fishing trip. It is however difficult to estimate the preciseness of these figures. This can be used in combination with the results from surveys to get approximate estimates of length distribution of the catches. Cod The sampling program for cod caught in the recreational fisheries in Sweden will be based on the postal enquiry (described above) which will be evaluated by Statistics Sweden. Pilot study in ICES division 23 targeting recreational fishery In the Swedish national surveys it has been shown that 50% of all the cod taken in the recreational Swedish fisheries originates from fishing in the Öresund area (ICES division 23). Since the national surveys suffer from large and/or systematic non-responses in this rather limited area, a pilot study of this type of fishing should be undertaken. The pilot study is in this context in accordance with Commission Decision (2008/949/EC) Chapter II B (1). From a scientific point, the cod fishery in this area is highly important as it might influence the spawning stock of the western Baltic cod stock. In the Swedish and also in the Danish recreational fishery it is estimated that a large part of the catches in this area is taken by the charter vessels which have recreational fishers as paying guests. The exact catches of these catches are not known. The number of these Swedish charter vessels is rather low (<15) and hopefully all of them will cooperate. The peak season for the recreational cod fishery is the first quarter of the year. The Swedish Board of Fisheries would like to undertake a pilot study where: 1. The skippers of all the charter vessels reports the daily catches in a log-book during the first months of A survey is carried out targeting the fishing guests of the charter vessels asking questions of their other recreational fishing habits and some socio-economic issues (i.e. the costs associated with their fishing) III.D.3 Regional coordination Salmon None. Cod Sampling of cod will be discussed between MS in the WKSMRF, which is aiming to harmonise and coordinate sampling from the recreational fisheries. Sweden will participate in the Workshop and present the approach which will be taken by Sweden. The Workshop will be a useful platform to do necessary coordination and harmonisation from the start. III.D.4 Derogations and non-conformities Salmon 42

43 As indicated earlier annual estimates of catches are provided for the recreational river fishery, while estimates for the coastal and offshore components of the fishery are getting complete updates with a few years interval and partial updates in intermediate years. Work is in progress to improve the river statistics and provide estimates of the accuracy of collected catch data. Results will be reported in If the results indicate considerable deficiencies in important districts there is a preliminary plan to make a major survey covering some of these areas in The expert opinion at the WKSMRF meeting in 2009 that it in most cases would be impossible to achieve a CV of 20% for the recreational fishery statistics will influence how much effort Sweden is putting into extended surveys. Cod None 43

44 THE NORTH SEA AND EAST ARCTIC Concerns cod. Recreational fishery for eel is not permitted. III.D.1 Data acquisition In Sweden, estimation of cod caught in the recreational fishery will be taken care of in a national postal enquiry which is planned to be undertaken in 2009 and performed in two steps. In the first step, inhabitants between 16 and 74 years of age will be randomly selected from the register held by Statistics Sweden. This enquiry is simple and easy to answer and the aim is to catch the inhabitants that actually performed recreational fishery during In the second step, the persons who were actively fishing during 2008 will receive a more comprehensive postal enquiry. This enquiry has 21 questions to be answered and the results will give a picture of the recreational fishery regarding gears used, number of days, species composition in the catch and the size of the catch (in kg) and fishing area. The results will be statistically analysed (with the details given in the report from this study) and presented by area (Skagerrak, Kattegat, The Sound, the Southern part, the main basin and the Northern part of the Baltic. Areas of national interest like freshwater and rivers will also be covered within this study. Within all the areas it will be possible to present the results (catch and effort) at an even more detailed level, in rectangles with the size 60 *60 km. This study will cover all the important species caught in the recreational fishery where cod is one of these species. Sweden participated in the workshop on Sampling Methods for recreational Fisheries (WKSMRF) in April The major outcome from the workshop was that there is no simple standardized method which can be applied in all areas due to big differences in recreational fisheries in the MS. Recommendations made in the WKSMRF report will be evaluated later this year and no guidelines exists at the moment. Sweden will therefore perform the sampling as planned and described above, during 2009 and evaluate the results from this sampling setup and report the result in Experts at the meeting agreed that it would be difficult or in many cases impossible to achieve a CV of 20% for the recreational fishery statistics. This conclusion will probably have major implications for future planning. III.D.2 Data quality The sampling program for cod caught in the recreational fisheries in Sweden will be based on the postal enquiry (described above) which will be evaluated by Statistics Sweden. III.D.3 Regional coordination Sampling of cod will be discussed between MS in the WKSMRF, which is aiming to harmonise and coordinate sampling from the recreational fisheries. Sweden will participate in the Workshop and present the approach which will be taken by Sweden. The Workshop will be a useful platform to do necessary coordination and harmonisation from the start. III.D.4 Derogations and non-conformities None 44

45 III.E Biological stock-related variables THE BALTIC SEA III.E.1 Selection of stocks to sample Stocks to be included in the sampling scheme for the Baltic region are listed in the upper part of table III.E.1. An overview of long term planning of sampling for stock related variables is given in table III.E.2, and an overview of the planned sampling for age, weight, sex, maturity and fecundity is given in table III.E.3. To get the numbers of individuals presented in table III.E.3 a separate sampling table was produced for Sweden, to clarify the data sources and to give an overview of the sampling intensity (market, sea sampling, survey) at stock level (see annex 1). III.E.2 Data acquisition Herring (Clupea harengus) IIIb-d Sweden is considering sd 22-24, sd 25-29, sd 30 and sd 31 as separate sampling units. For western Baltic herring (SD 22-24) and main basin herring (SD 25-29), herring are collected from randomly selected fishing vessels. In Sweden, herring is mainly caught in one merged métier, constituting of trawls (OTB_SPF_16-31_0_0), (PTM_SPF_16-31_0_0) and (PTM_SPF_>=32_0_0). Samples are purchased from different landing ports (Simrishamn, Nogersund, Västervik and Rånehamn on Gotland). Each sample is constituted of 50 or 100 individuals collected randomly from about 6-10 kg of landed fish. All samples are transported to IMR in Lysekil for analysis. Information on age, length, weight, sex idual sampled. For herring from SD 30 and SD 31, stock specific data on age, weight, sex, and maturity will be compiled from samples from three sources, the Swedish sampling from herring gillnets (SD 30 and 31), the Baltic International Acoustic Survey (SD 30), and Finnish sampling from bottom trawls (SD 30 and 31). These multiple sources are necessary as the gillnet fishery targets spawning aggregations of herring, and hence individuals with a different maturity status for a given age and length than the bottom trawl fishery. Sampling for stock specific data from Swedish catches in herring gillnets amount to 400 individuals per stock (SD 30 and 31), collected in quarters 2-3. The samples are collected by length stratification using 20 individuals per half centimetre. Data analysis of bottom trawl catches of herring will be coordinated with the Finnish sampling scheme on stock specific data from this métier. Sweden and Finland apply task sharing for sampling this stock so that Sweden is sampling 3100 individuals and Finland 2000 individuals. A formal bilateral agreement has been signed between the countries on biological sampling of the herring stocks in SD30 and SD31 During the Baltic International Acoustic Survey (covering SD 25, 27, 28, 29, 30) conducted in the 4th quarter, sex and gonadal maturity are collected following the international 8 scale maturity key. In addition, information on age, length and weight is collected. For sex ratio and maturity the parameters are referenced to age. Sprat (Sprattus sprattus) IIIb-d - 45

46 Sprat in the Baltic is sampled as one single stock, and samples containing both herring and sprat are collected from randomly selected fishing vessels. In Sweden, sprat is mainly caught in one merged métier, constituting of trawls (OTB_SPF_16-31_0_0), (PTM_SPF_16-31_0_0) and (PTM_SPF_>=32_0_0). Samples are purchased from different landing ports (see above). Each sample is constituted of 50 or 100 individuals collected randomly from about 6-10 kg of landed fish. All samples are transported to IMR in Lysekil for analysis. Information on age, length, weight and sex is collected routinely from each individual sampled. Gonadal maturity is recorded for the individuals collected in 1 st and 2 nd quarter due to the typical spawning activity of Baltic sprat in the 2 nd quarter. During the Baltic International Acoustic Survey conducted in the 4 th quarter, information on age, length, weight and sex is collected. No sampling for maturity is performed during the Survey. Cod (Gadus morhua) IIIb-d Cod in the Baltic Sea is separated in two different stocks: the Western stock (sub-divisions 22-24), and the Eastern stock (sub-divisions 25-32). Biological sampling and results are reported by stock. Samples of cod will be collected randomly within each landing size category. Cod is mainly caught in three métiers, bottom trawls (OTB_DEM_>=105_1_110), gillnet (GNS_DEF_>=110_0_0) and long line (LLS_DEM_0_0_0) and information on age, length and weight are collected from these métiers. The species is sorted with respect to weight, in accordance with EU standard 1-5. A certain number of individuals are collected from each landing size category, for example more individuals are sampled from size 1-3 because it includes more age-classes compared to size 4 and 5. The idea is to sample all age classes in the population equally in number within a sampling unit to obtain a robust Age Length Key (ALK) in terms of precision. Sweden samples approximately 500 individuals per stock and quarter. For discarded cod, age, length and weight are collected in sea sampling programme. Sampling of the Western and Eastern stocks takes place in fishing ports situated in Karlskrona, Nogersund, Simrishamn and the islands of Gotland and Öland. Sampling of sex and gonadal maturity (along with age, length and weight) is carried out on board R/V ARGOS during the BITS surveys conducted in the 1 st and 4 th quarters. Number of individuals sampled follows the BITS manual. Sex and maturity are determined following the international 5 scale maturity key and the data is referenced to age. Flounder (Platichtys flesus) Average Swedish landings of flounder in the Baltic Sea during the last three years amount to 211 tonnes, thus rendering this stock eligible for sampling. Furthermore, since the Baltic flounder consists of two distinct stocks, demersal and pelagic spawning in the southern and northern part respectively, and sampling is made in both areas. Sampling of flounder catches in the Baltic Sea is based on random samples taken from demersal trawls and gill-nets. Agedetermined samples are supplemented by additional random samples of length-measured individuals. This sampling scheme ensures that the estimates of catch composition accounts for the two main gear types, seasonal variation, and are of adequate precision. A reference length-age distribution (300 individuals) will be derived annually in SD 27 where additional detailed catch protocols are recorded in collaboration with fishermen (protocols are kept solely at national expense). This will be accompanied by age-determined samples of 200 individuals per quarter, during two quarters in SD25. The age-length keys will if necessary be derived using both landed and discarded fish to cover the whole size distribution. These are 46

47 combined with additional length samples weighted by catch rates, to obtain acceptable precision levels in a cost-effective way. Both females and males will be sampled until more is known about growth patterns and selectivity. In total 700 individuals will be age determined. All age-determined individuals are also sampled for weight, length, sex and gonadal maturity status. Eel (Anguilla anguilla) SD 23, 24, 25 & 27. The European eel is considered to belong to one single panmictic stock. According to EC Regulation no 1100/2007 each member state (MS) has to present a national management (EMP) plan by the end of To comply with this plan the MS will have to present a credible estimate of the biomass of spawners produced annually in the entire area of Swedish eel management. sd 20, 21, The Swedish eel stock is primarily recruited from glass eel settling in the coastal zone of Skagerrak, Kattegat and the Danish Straits and in rivers in this area. After an unknown period of time and depending on processes not fully understood, the young eels continue spreading into the Baltic basin. This process probably involves density dependence. The Swedish eel stock thus could be considered one single management unit and most probably will be treated as one in the future national EMP. The EMP has to be adaptive and national targets have to set on different time scales and to be evaluated for compliance. Assessment tools including monitoring have to be developed to meet this demand. In this process there is an urge for data, fishery dependent as well as fishery independent, from all significant habitats within a management unit. In Sweden this should be applied for yellow eel in the coastal zone as well as in freshwater and for escaping silver eels mainly in the Baltic Sea. The source of silver eels caught in the Swedish pound net fishery could be anywhere in the Baltic basin, with no information on the proportion in the catch of specific national origin. This fact must be addressed in evaluating compliance with any national EMP in the Baltic region, urging for specific research on this issue. Yellow eel is almost exclusively caught in the fyke net fishery (FYK_CAT_0_0_0). The samples will be collected in SD 23 and 27 where the fishery mainly is conducted. Sampling of stock specific data will be performed by purchasing samples from randomly selected fishermen during the main fishing season, on a quarterly basis in quarters 2-3 in SD 23 and once at the peak of landings in quarter 2-3 in SD 27. Information on age, weight, sex, and maturity will be derived from a total material of approx. 400 individuals in the Baltic Sea.. Each single length/age key will be based on 200 individuals. In order to get a good coverage of the size- and age distribution in the yellow eel stock, sampling will include undersized and thus normally discarded yellow eels. on a quarterly basis The samples will be collected in SD 23 and 27 where the fishery mainly is conducted in SD 27 The pound net fishery (FPN_CAT_0_0_0) in the Baltic is strongly targeting silver eel. Samples for stock specific data on age, weight, sex, and maturity will be purchased from randomly selected fishermen each month during the peak of the fishing season. In total, approx. 800 individuals will be sampled within SDs and 27, where the fishery is focused. Each single length/age key will be based on 200 individuals. Sampling in all subdivisions will include undersized and thus normally discarded silver eels. Sampling in the Baltic region (IIId) is coordinated with sampling in the North Sea region. Salmon (Salmo salar) 47

48 The Swedish landings from commercial and recreational fisheries of salmon in IIIb-d was on average 566 tonnes (years ) or fish obliging Sweden to sample this stock. The Swedish fishery for anadromous fish species was formerly dominated by the offshore driftnet fishery (GND_ANA>=157_0_0) for salmon in SD in autumn and spring, while long lines (LLD_ANA_0_0_0) were used in the winter. As driftnets were banned from 1 Jan 2008, it is possible that long line fishery could increase in magnitude to compensate for the ban. The present magnitude of the long line fishery does not motivate a sampling in 2009, but in case the fishery increases in 2008, sampling may need to be added as a complement for Sampling of the commercial salmon and sea trout catches in the coastal métier (FPO_ANA_0_0_0) takes place in the Gulf of Bothnia (ICES sub-divisions 30-31). The sampling is partly carried out by selected fishermen themselves in different coastal regions and the data collected include length, weight and sex of individual fish. This sampling is also representative of the recreational fishery using similar gear. Scales are collected from all fish in samples. Scales are used for aging, determination of whether the fish is of wild or reared origin and genetic studies. Recreational fishery is sampled in three rivers in Gulf of Bothnia and one river in the Main Basin, where catch samples of salmon and sea trout are collected throughout the fishing season. The monitored variables include smolt age, sea-age, sex, origin (wild/reared) and size at capture (weight and length). These data are an integral part of the assessment of the spawning run composition and the effects of the fishery. Data on fecundity will be collected by a recreational brood stock fishery in River Dalälven, Sub-division 30. River monitoring of wild salmon and sea trout stocks In river monitoring of Swedish wild salmon stocks was included in the NP. The monitoring consisted of annual electrofishing surveys of salmon and sea trout parr in wild salmon rivers, running of a smolt trap for emigrating smolts and maintaining counting of ascending salmon and sea trout spawners in fishladders in three rivers. In the new Commission Regulation valid for , it is stated that countries should establish salmon index rivers, as defined bv ICES, for counting of smolts, numbers of ascending spawners and estimating densities of parr. As Sweden has a major part of the Baltic salmon rivers, this has major implications for the Swedish monitoring system. According to ICES definitions Sweden will establish three index rivers, two in Gulf of Bothnia and one in the Main Basin instead of one partial small index river as have been in use earlier (Sävarån). Establishment of index rivers is normally associated with major costs because basic facilities are needed for the counting activities and the costs for running the investigations are also substantial. In order to handle the new demands it has been necessary to decrease the amount of monitoring in other non-index rivers. Furthermore the Swedish Board of Fisheries has decided to co-operate with other bodies, both private companies and regional and local agencies and local organizations as well as the Swedish University of Agriculture (SLU). These are used as subcontractors and they are also contributing considerable amounts of money to the index river projects. The Swedish Board of Fisheries is responsible for project management and in some cases also detailed planning and reporting of results. These projects are seen as important parts of a new salmon management plan that is expected to replace the SAP plan ( ) soon. As the Board of Fisheries will not own any of the investments in fishladders nor the new smolt traps it will be considered as subcontracting costs. The Board has established a clear definition that investments for instance in basic constructions such as dams are not allowed in the NP. Costs that are included must be clearly related to facilitation of the basic operation of index rivers, such as installation or operation of counting equipment. Agrigculture 48

49 The generally plan for index rivers is as described in the text table below. River Smolt count Adult count Electrofishing Ume/Vindelalven, New traps Use of existing Yes Su b-div. 31, a large will operate fishladder in river in , need for improvement Savaran, Sub-div. 31, a small river Morrumsan, Subdiv. 25, midsize river Existing traps will operate in Existing traps will operate in Need for investment Smolt traps and considerable investments in counting equipment in fishladder in Not in Yes Investigation of solution for adult counting in 2009, outcome will decide plan for 2011 Use of existing fishladder, need for improvement Yes Improvement of inlet to fishladder planned for 2010, counting equipment in fishladder in 2010, in 2010 dependent on result of investigation 2010 In the revised plan for 2010 a few changes may be noted. Some of the investments planned for 2009 will be implemented first in This means that costs will be moved from 2009 to Furthermore one fishladder in River Mörrumsån has turned out to be more expensive to improve than originally believed. This may lead to increased costs for consults in the order of kr compared to the original budget. Smolt traps operated successfully in Ume/Vindelälven and Morrumsan in 2009, but a preliminary analysis shows that more narrow confidence intervals of production figures are needed to provide high quality estimates. This leads to a need for a considerable improvement of the traps to get higher catchabilities. Furthermore the smolt traps needs more maintainance than originally planned. All these factors leads to higher costs compared to the original plan. There are two major items that are in particular need of explanation. This concerns the installation of expensive PIT-tag reading system (partly in 2009 and the remainder in 2010) and fish holding facilities (mainly in 2009) in River Ume/Vindelälven. Professor Hans Lundqvist at the Swedish University of Agriculture in Umeå was asked to provide a costbenefit analysis of these items (Annex III). In addition to the monitoring of the index rivers operation of a fishladder in River Kalixalven and electrofishing is included in the NP. All data from electrofishing survey are collected in a national database covering all Swedish surveys (SERS). Other data are also collected and kept in a database that is partly operated by the Board of Fisheries. It is expected that it will take about two years to get all datasets in order. All data from river monitoring will be reported to the relevant ICES Working Group (WGBAST). III.E.3 Data quality While waiting for the standard tool (COST) for analysing precision etc, Sweden has over the years calculated CV on a national level using analytical or boot strap methods. The results from the analyses have been used to adjust the sampling size as well as improve and optimise large and is regarding a 2010 at less than 50% of the level in 2008 A detailed plan of the different costs is in an annex to the budget. more than one year 49

50 the sampling scheme. When the tool is released, Sweden will be able to analyse the data in a standardized way, and the results will guide us to reconsider the sample size as well as sampling setup. III.E.4 Regional coordination Bilateral agreements for the Baltic have been signed with Denmark and Germany. The intention is to follow up this for the period , in the beginning of Recommendations made in the Baltic are listed in section III.C.4. In the Baltic, two types of surveys are conducted following the international manuals defining sampling procedure and sampling size etc. The Baltic International Trawl Survey (BITS) in quarter 1 and quarter 4, follows the manuals BITS 2002 (ICES CM 2002/H), and for Baltic International Acoustic Survey (BIAS) manual version 0,8 BIAS 2008 is used. The surveys are planned within the ICES WGBIFS working group. III.E.5 Derogations and non-conformities Regarding Table III.E.3, Swedish data in the column Number of fish necessary to achieve precision target is referring to the national calculations on CV, on which the Swedish sampling size is based. This might be changed as soon as the statistical tool (COST) will be available and data analysed in a standardized way. Cod in subdivision are not sampled for sex and maturity since the fish sampled in harbours are gutted and Sweden is not covering this area during the BITS survey. The survey is planned internationally (WGBIFS) and Sweden is responsible to cover Subdivisions 25, 27 and 28, whereas other countries (Denmark and Germany) are covering sd Sweden is therefore not able so sample maturity data on cod in this area through the BITS survey and asks for derogation for the required sampling. Eel (Anguilla anguilla) Sweden will be proposed one single management unit in the national eel management plan. Due to large regional differences in stock composition and habitat, the required biological sampling of minimum 100 age samples per management unit will not be adequate to fulfil the demands for evaluation of compliance. A minimum of 200 age samples from each of the most relevant ICES Subdivisions is thus suggested. The sample size is estimated to meet the demand of five individuals aged per cm-group. Herring (Clupea harengus) The herring stock in Sub-divisions is mainly exploited by the Finnish trawl fishery (95% of the landings). Information for representing the métier of bottom trawl catches of herring is suggested to be obtained from the large Finnish sampling scheme on stock specific data of approx individuals. The Swedish trawl fishery has a similar selection pattern as the Finnish trawl fishery. Sweden asks for derogation for the required sampling of the Swedish trawl fleet in Subdivision 30. For assessment purposes landings of this fleet will be distributed according to sampling results from Finland. Flounder (Platichtys flesus) 50

51 Sampling will only be made during the most intensive parts of the fishery, for GNS_DEF_>=110_0_0 during the quarter 3 and for (OTB_DEF_>=105_1_110 and OTM_DEF_>=105_1_110) during the quarters 1 and 4. The required biological sampling would result in too small sample size to achieve the required precision, hence the samplesize for the métiers above will be increased to 300 and 400 individuals respectively. Salmon (Salmo salar) The offshore longline fishery will not be sampled due to the small extent of this fishery. It may however be necessary to start sampling in 2011 because ICES stock assessment work may require a genetic analysis of the stock composition in the south Baltic. Maturity data for salmon are not collected in the program. The reason behind this is first of all that fishing is mainly taking place along the coasts and in rivers, whereas the offshore fishery nowadays is of small magnitude. Salmon migrate from the offshore area first when they are preparing for spawning. All fish in the sampled fisheries are therefore in a more or less advanced stage for spawning. It is without any purpose to study the maturity of these fish for any kind of fishery biological investigation. Because of the major investigations and investments needed for the river monitoring in index rivers, it will not be possible to get all three planned index rivers fully operational in The river where Sweden has carried out Index River studies earlier (Sävarån) lacks a functioning control of the upstream migration close to the river mouth. In year 2008 a telemetry study of ascending spawners was carried out in the river. The results of this study are now available and they give a sound basis for planning of an upstream counting system. A planning of this takes place in 2009 but there is insufficient time to plan for an implementation already in 2010 so it will be postponed for In case the fishery increases considerably in , it is planned to start sampling in and perhaps not in However, Sweden does not manage to fulfil the plan the first year (2009) of the new regulation A planning of this will take place in 2009 and it will probably result in the submission of a changed NP application for 2010 in the autumn of

52 THE NORTH SEA AND EAST ARCTIC III.E.1 Selection of stocks to sample Stocks to be included in the sampling scheme for the North Sea region are listed in the lower part of table III.E.1. An overview of long term planning of sampling for stock related variables is given in table III.E.2, and an overview of the planned sampling for age, weight, sex, maturity and fecundity is given in table III.E.3. To get the numbers of individuals presented in table III.E.3 a separate sampling table was produced for Sweden, to clarify the data sources and to give an overview of the sampling intensity (market, sea sampling, survey) at stock level (see annex 1 ). III.E.2 Data acquisition Herring (Clupea harengus) IIIa Herring are collected from randomly selected fishing vessels. Each sample is constituted of 50 or 100 individuals collected randomly from about 6-10 kg of landed fish. Sampling of herring in IIIa takes place by spawning stock (Chapter III.B.1.2a). Herring in IIIa consist of: a/ autumn-spawners from the North Sea b/ spring-spawners from the Western Baltic Sea c/ local winter and spring-spawning stocks. The size of these stocks varies between years, seasons and age groups. The variations are evaluated annually with the help of special biological sampling (i.e. analysis of the microstructure of the otolith). From 1990 onwards, two main spawning stocks are identified: autumn-spawning and spring-spawning herring. Herring samples are collected from three métiers, trawls (PTM_SPF_32-69_0_0 and OTM_SPF_32-69_0_0) and purse seine (PS_SPF_32-69_0_0). However, the métiers are currently targeting herring for human consumption and ALK does not differ between them (Cardinale and Hansson, 2006). Thus, Sweden considers the three métiers as a single statistical sampling unit and precision levels as well as ALK were derived from the fleets combined. Samples of herring is purchased or performed by the Department of Fisheries control and transported to IMR in Lysekil for analysis. Information on age, length and weight, sex and gonadal maturity is collected from each individual sampled. The spawning type is determined by analyses of otoliths individual fish. Also, information on age, length, weight, sex and gonadal maturity are collected during IBTS surveys conducted in the 1 st and 3 rd quarters. Sex and maturity are determined following an 8 stage international key and the data is referenced to age. Sprat (Sprattus sprattus) IIIa Samples of sprat are collected from three métiers. Sprat for human consumption is caught with fine-mesh purse seines and ring nets mainly during autumn and winter in the Skagerrak (PS_SPF_32-69_0_0). Samples of sprat are also collected from Fisheries taking place throughout the year using ring nets, mid-water trawls and bottom trawls. (PTM_SPF_32-69_0_0) and (OTM_SPF_32-52

53 69_0_0). Sweden considers the three métiers as a single statistical sampling unit and precision levels as well as ALK were derived from the fleets combined. Samples of sprat is purchased or performed by the Department of Fisheries control and transported to IMR in Lysekil for analysis. Information on age, length, weight, sex and gonadal maturity is collected from each individual sampled. Information on age, length, weight and sex and gonadal maturity are also collected during IBTS surveys conducted in the 1 st and 3 rd quarters. Sex and maturity are determined following an 8 stage international key and data is referenced to age. Sampling for cod and plaice Samples of cod and plaice will be collected randomly within each landing size category. Both species are sorted with respect to weight, in accordance with EU standard 1-5 for cod and 1-4 for plaice. A certain number of individuals are collected from each landing size category, for example more individuals are sampled from size 1-3 because it includes more age-classes compared to size 4 and 5. The idea is to sample all age classes in the population equally in number within a sampling unit to obtain a robust Age Length Key (ALK) in terms of precision. Samples are collected from a randomly selected number of boats representing the fishery. Cod and plaice are caught primarily in following métiers, demersal fish trawl (OTB_DEF_90-119_0_0 ) and as by-catch in trawls targeting Nephrops (OTB_CRU_90-119_0_0) and for cod, as by-catch in trawls targeting Pandalus (OTB_CRU_32-69_0_0) and for plaice in gillnet (GNS_DEF_ _0_0). Cod (Gadus morhua) IIIa S and N The cod in IIIa belong to two different stocks and are therefore sampled separately. The major part of the catch is taken during the 1 st and 4 th quarters. Sampling of cod regarding age, length and weight is performed at the fish auction in Göteborg on the landed part of the catch. Samples on age, length and weight for discarded cod are performed in the sea sampling programme. While landed cod is gutted, sampling of sex and gonadal maturity (along with age, length and weight is carried out on board R/V ARGOS during the IBTS surveys conducted in the 1 st and 3 rd quarters. Numbers of individuals sampled follow the IBTS manual. Sex and maturity are determined following the national 8 scale maturity key (transferable to the international key) and the data is referenced to age. Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) IIIa Plaice in the Kattegat and the Skagerrak are assumed to belong to the same stock. With start in 2009 sampling of plaice is planned to be covered by Denmark, and will be an example of task sharing between Sweden and Denmark and explained in the bilateral agreement. Sampling of sex and gonadal maturity (along with age, length and weight) will still be carried out on-board R/V ARGOS during the IBTS surveys conducted in the 1 st and 3 rd quarters. Number of individuals sampled follows the IBTS manual. Sex and maturity are determined following the national 8 scale maturity key (transferable to the international key) and the data is referenced to age. Witch Flounder (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus) IIIaNs 2009 will be the first year for Sweden of regular sampling of witch flounder in the Skagerrak. Therefore, there will be a pilot study regarding sampling strategy and sample size. Sweden is planning to collect data on age, length and weight of the whole catch in sea sampling 53

54 programme within the métier (OTB_DEF_90-119_0_0) targeting witch flounder. For discards, samples of age will be collected onboard and for the landed part, a sample of unsorted catch will be purchased and transported to IMR in Lysekil for analysis. Sampling of sex and gonadal maturity (along with age, length and weight) is carried out on board R/V ARGOS during the IBTS surveys conducted in the 1 st and 3 rd quarter. Sex and maturity is determined following the national 8 scale maturity key and the data is referenced to age. As recommended in the NS & EA, Sweden will read the otoliths sampled by Scotland and task sharing with Denmark will be arranged and will be presented in the bilateral agreements. Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus) IIIa The sampling is carried out on board commercial Norway lobster trawlers (single and twin trawlers) separated into traditional trawls (OTB_CRU_90-119_0_0) and grid equipped ones (OTB_CRU_70-89_2_35), and onboard crustacean creel boats (FPO_CRU_0_0_0), performed by personnel from IMR. Sampling onboard trawlers is performed on the sorted catch, i.e. both on the proportion of the catch to be landed and the proportion to be discarded, separated into sex, female maturity stage, and includes length measurement of the carapax. When appropriate time series of data are available for the Skagerrak creel fishery, this fishery should be assessed separately for reasons of its different exploitation pattern and explains the high level of sampling planned. Other biological parameters such as sex and gonadal maturity are sampled as supplementary data on females for those individuals which are length measured. The analytical stock assessment is carried out on each sex separately. Sweden and Denmark have signed an agreement of cooperation in data collection. The agreement has an emphasis on foreign landings but it also covers specific parameters. For Norway lobster it has been agreed that only Sweden will carry out sampling for weight, sex and maturity and will therefore increase its sampling intensity to compensate for the missing Danish sampling. Eel (Anguilla anguilla) IIIaN and IIIaS The European eel is considered to belong to one single panmictic stock. According to EC Regulation no 1100/2007 each member state (MS) has to present a national management (EMP) plan by the end of To comply with this plan the MS will have to present a credible estimate of the biomass of spawners produced annually in the entire area of Swedish eel management. The Swedish eel stock is primarily recruited from glass eel settling in the coastal zone of the Skagerrak, Kattegatt and the Danish Straits and in rivers in this area. After an unknown period of time and depending on processes not fully understood, the young eels continue spreading into the Baltic basin. This process probably involves density dependence. The Swedish eel stock thus could be considered one single management unit and most probably will be treated as one in the future national EMP. The EMP has to be adaptive and national targets have to set on different time scales and to be evaluated for compliance. Assessment tools including monitoring have to be developed to meet this demand. In this process there is an urge for data, fishery dependent as well as fishery independent, from all significant habitats within a management unit. In Sweden this should be applied for yellow eel in the coastal zone as well as in freshwater and for escaping silver eels mainly in the Baltic Sea. Less than 200 tonnes of eel are landed from IIIa, almost exclusively yellow eel caught in the fyke net fishery (FYK_CAT_0_0_0). Sampling of stock specific data will be performed by 54

55 purchasing samples from randomly selected fishermen on a monthly basis during the main fishing season in quarters 2-3. Information on age, weight, sex, and maturity will be derived from a total material of approx. 600 individuals in area IIIa. Each single length/age key will be based on 200 individuals. In order to get a good coverage of the size- and age distribution in the yellow eel stock, sampling will include undersized and thus normally discarded yellow eels. Pandalid shrimps (Pandalus borealis) IIIa and IVa E Pandalid shrimp is caught in two métiers, trawls with species selected grid (OTB_CRU_32-69_2_35) and traditional shrimp trawl (OTB_CRU_32-69_0_0). Samples will be collected from both métiers. Shrimps caught in traditional shrimp trawl will be sampled on board by staff from IMR. The métier catching shrimps using species sorting grid will be sampled on board during a pilot study While discard rate is low, and the catch is quite clean for this métier, Sweden is aiming towards a self sampling scheme. The catch is sorted on board according to size. The fraction of larger shrimps is boiled on board, the middle fraction landed fresh to the canning industry and the smallest shrimps are discarded. Samples from boiled and middle fractions will be purchased and transported to IMR for analysis in respect of carapax length, sex, maturity stage and weight. Sex and maturity is referenced to length. III.E.3 Data quality While waiting for the standard tool (COST) for analysing precision etc, Sweden has over the years calculated CV on a national level using analytical or boot strap methods. The results from the analyses have been used to adjust the sampling size as well as improve and optimise the sampling scheme. When the tool is released, Sweden will be able to analyse the data in a standardized way, and the results will guide us to reconsider the sample size as well as sampling setup. III.E.4 Regional coordination Bilateral agreements with Denmark and Germany for the Skagerrak and Kattegat, has been done for previous years and the intention is to follow up this for the period , in the beginning of Recommendations made in the North Sea and East Arctic is listed in section III.C.4. In the Skagerrak and Kattegat, the International Bottom Trawl Surveys (IBTS) are conducted in quarter 1 and quarter 3 following the international manuals defining sampling procedure and sampling size etc. (Anon 2006). The surveys are planned within the ICES IBTS working group. III.E.5 Derogations and non-conformities Regarding Table III.E.3, Swedish data in the column Number of fish necessary to achieve precision target is referring to the national calculations on CV, on which the Swedish sampling size is based on. This might be changed as soon as the statistical tool (COST) will be available and data analysed in a standardized way. 55

56 Eel (Anguilla anguilla) Sweden will be proposed one single management unit in the national eel management plan. Due to large regional differences in stock composition and habitat, the required biological sampling of minimum 100 age samples per management unit will not be adequate to fulfil the demands for evaluation of compliance. A minimum of 200 age samples from each of the most relevant ICES subdivisions is thus suggested. The sample size is estimated to meet the demand of five individuals aged per cm group. Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) IIIa Average landing of Haddock in Sweden was 230 tonnes in IIIa (for the period ) while the Swedish share of EU TAC is below 10 %, obliging Sweden to sample this stock. Analytical stock assessment on Haddock is performed on a stock level constituting of the two areas IIIA and IV (North Sea) together. The Swedish landings in IIIA are very small compared to the total landing of the whole stock and the value of Swedish data for the overall picture of the stock is insignificant. Sweden therefore asks for derogation for sampling this stock. III.F Transversal variables III.F.1 Capacity III.F.1.1 Data acquisition Capacity data will be obtained from the fleet register. In order to segment the fleet logbooks and coastal journals will be used to obtain the main gear type used. The dominance criteria to allocate each vessel to a segment will be based on the number of fishing days used with each gear. Definition of variables and sources: As defined in Appendix VIII of the Commission regulation (EC) no 665/2008. Number of vessels: Shall be compiled from the fleet register and disaggregated to level C3 and B1 by use of logbooks and coastal journals. GT, kw and Vessel age: Shall be compiled from the fleet register. III.F.1.2 Data Quality Capacity data are collected exhaustively in the fleet register III.F.1.3 Regional coordination Sweden will participate in the s and implement their recommendations. III.F.1.4 Derogations and non-conformities There are no planned derogations or non-conformities with the requirements of the DCR. III.F.2 Effort 56

57 III.F.2.1 Data acquisition Data will be acquired as defined in Appendix VIII of the Commission decision 2008/949/EC. All spatial data used to calculate time in area for vessels reporting in logbook, will be based on best information from VMS, AIS, Effort reports, logbook and inspection information (sighting etc). The spatial data are stored trip by trip with information for each record on vessel, position (long/lat), time and data source. Information on activity and gear onboard is linked to each trip. Vessel not obliged to keep logbook report there effort information in the monthly coastal journal. Data on gear capacity and activity will be collected as well as information on days at sea/fishing days. For simplicity reason calendar day will be used for the calculation of activities of vessels under 8m/10m without logbook Variable Days at sea Hours fished Fishing days kw * Fishing Days GT * Fishing days Number of trips Number of rigs Number of fishing operations Number of nets, Length Number of hooks, Number of lines Numbers of pots, traps Soaking time Data sources and methodologies. Spatial data sources (described above) and coastal journals for vessels without logbook Effort data in logbook (haul by haul records) information. Logbook and coastal journals for vessels without logbook Fleet register and logbook/coastal journal Fleet register and logbook/coastal journal Logbook/Coastal journal (gear information) Logbook/Coastal journal (gear information) Logbook/Coastal journal Logbook/Coastal journal Logbook/Coastal journal Logbook/Coastal journal Logbook/Coastal journal III.F.2.2 Data quality Effort data derive from the same datasets used to monitor quota and effort limitations. Comprehensive validations are made during the database entry process (logbook, landing declarations, sales notes, Coastal journals, effort reports). Spatial data from logbook, VMS, effort reports, sightings etc are compiled trip by trip. The trip information is crosschecked in order to verify catch and effort area information in the logbook and to calculate time in different effort areas. Cross-checking of effort information in the monthly coastal journals is not made on a trip by trip base and not on a regular base. Risk based cross-checks will be performed by using surveillance information. 57

58 III.F.2.3 Regional coordination No initiatives to coordinate the national programme with other MS for the collection of effort data. III.F.2.4 Derogations and non-conformities For simplicity reason calendar day (not 24 hour period) will be used for the calculation of activities of vessels under 8m/10m without logbook. III.F.3 Landings III.F.3.1 Data acquisition Data will be acquired as defined in Appendix VIII of the Commission decision 2008/949/EC. Variable Value of landings total and per commercial species Live Weight of landings total and per species Prices by commercial species Conversion factor per species Data sources and methodologies. Logbook/Landing declaration, Coastal Journal and salesnotes. Since all quantity in a landing does not necessarily end up in a salesnote, an average price for the species landed is used instead of the corresponding sales note. For monthly coastal journals an average for the month is used. The average prices are based on species, landing location and landing date. Logbook/Landing declaration and Coastal Journal. National conversion factors (same as for quota calculation) are used to calculate live weight from product weight until EC harmonised factors are in Sales notes National conversion factors (same as for quota calculation) are used to calculate live weight from product weight until EC harmonised factors are in force. III.F.3.2 Data quality Landing data derive from the same datasets used to monitor quotas. Comprehensive validations are made during the database entry process (logbook, landing declarations, sales notes, Coastal journals, effort reports). Catch, landing and sales data as well as spatial data from logbook, VMS, effort reports, sightings etc are compiled trip by trip. The trip information is crosschecked in order to verify catch and catch area information in the logbook. Crosschecking of information in the monthly coastal journals are not made on a trip by trip base and not on a regular base. III.F.3.3 Regional coordination No initiatives to coordinate the national programme with other MS for the collection of landing data. 58

59 III.F.3.4 Derogations and non-conformities There are no planned derogations or non-conformities with the requirements of the DCR. III.G Research surveys at sea III.G.1 Planned surveys Member States are required to conduct scientific research at sea to enable them to evaluate the size and distribution of the stocks, regardless of the data submitted by the commercial fisheries in relation to stocks for which such evaluations are possible and appropriate. Sweden will undertake six surveys in the Baltic Sea, the Kattegat and the Skagerrak. These six surveys are defined in Appendix IX of Commission Decision (2008/949/EC). The Swedish Board of Fisheries commands two research vessels. The R/V ARGOS which is a 61 meters long stern trawler. The Institute of Marine Research, IMR, uses R/V ARGOS when conducting the Baltic International Trawl Survey (BITS), Baltic International Acoustic Survey (BIAS) and the International Bottom Trawl Survey (IBTS). The smaller vessel, R/V Ancylus will be used for conducting the Nephrops TV Survey (see table III.G.1.). The trawl surveys described in this programme are internationally coordinated and will remain so. The planning and coordination of the surveys are done in ICES working groups connected with the surveys (BIFS Working Group, IBTS Working Group and WGNSSK Herring Survey Planning Working Group). Baltic International Trawl Survey (BITS) The survey is conducted twice yearly, in the 1 st quarter (15 days at sea, 50 trawl stations) and in the 4 th quarter (10 days at sea, 30 trawl stations) with the research vessel ARGOS. The surveys cover area IIId. The primary purpose is to produce indices for recruitment and stock abundance of the Baltic cod stock. Sampling of individual cod includes fish length, age, weight, sex and gonadal maturity and is carried out on board the survey vessel. Data on gonadal maturity and individual weight are obtained to establish sex specific maturity ogives and mean weight at age for cod. The otoliths are analysed at IMR in Lysekil. Age determination takes place in accordance with standardised methods (Anon. 2000a). The sampling procedure and the level of precision are defined in the Manual for the Baltic International Trawl surveys. ICES CM 2002/G:05(Addendum). The manual is available on the ICES website: The survey is ICES coordinated and performed in collaboration with research vessels from Denmark, Germany, Poland, Latvia and Russia. However, all countries are not involved in every survey. During the survey a TV3 bottom trawl is used at day-time. This gear was developed around ten years ago and is used as a standard gear by the countries involved. In connection with each haul, hydrographical data are collected with a CTD. 59

60 Primary survey data are stored in a fish sample database (FISKDATA) administered by IMR in Lysekil. Aggregated data are reported and used annually by relevant ICES Working Groups. Since 1997, data are also stored in an internationally coordinated database (DATRAS) at ICES in Copenhagen. The survey is well suited for the calculation of the ecosystem indicators 1-4 as listed in Appendix XIII of Commission Decision 2008/949/EC. Map 1. BITS (Baltic International Trawl Survey) quarter 1, cod survey in the Baltic. Stations plotted from survey in

61 Map 2. BITS (Baltic International Trawl Survey) quarter 4, cod survey in the Baltic. Stations plotted from survey in Baltic International Acoustic Survey (BIAS) The survey is conducted in area IIId during the 4th quarter (25 days at sea, 80 trawl stations) with the research vessel ARGOS. The survey consists of two parts, one joint-venture with Finland covering Sd 30 and one which is run by Sweden only, covering Sd The purpose of the survey is to provide acoustic abundance estimates of herring and sprat in the Baltic Sea (sub-divisions 25-30). The sampling procedure and the level of precision are defined in the Manual for the Baltic International Acoustic surveys ICES CM 2008/LRC:8Add 2. The Manual is available at The acoustic abundance estimate is done in collaboration with Finland, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Russia, Latvia and Estonneia. All species are length measured on board and parameters such as age, weight, sex and gonadal maturity are analyzed on herring and sprat. Age determination takes place in accordance with standardised methods (Anon. 2000a). Primary survey data are stored in a fish sample database (FISKDATA) administered by IMR in Lysekil. Aggregated data are reported and used annually by relevant ICES Working Groups. Data are also stored in an internationally coordinated database (Fishframe Acoustic, EC 99/06) administered by DFU in Copenhagen, Denmark. 61

62 The survey is well suited for the calculation of the ecosystem indicators 1-4 as listed in Appendix XIII of Commission Decision 2008/949/EC. Map 3. Trek chart of the Baltic International Acoustic Survey 2007 quarter 4 62

63 International Bottom Trawl Survey (IBTS) The survey is conducted twice a year, one in the 1 st quarter (15 days at sea, 48 trawl stations) and one in the 3 rd quarter (15 days at sea, 48 trawl stations) with the research vessel ARGOS. The surveys cover area IIIa and are the Swedish contribution to the International Bottom Trawl Survey. The purpose of the survey is to estimate abundance by age, in particular for the recruiting year classes of the target species (cod, haddock, whiting, herring, sprat, Norway pout and plaice) in the Kattegat and the Skagerrak. Sampling of target species includes fish length, age, weight, sex and gonadal maturity and is carried out on board R/V ARGOS. The otoliths are analysed at IMR in Lysekil. Age determination takes place in accordance with standardized methods (Anon. 2000a). The sampling procedure and the level of precision are defined in the Manual for the International Bottom Trawl Surveys ICES CM 2000/D:07. The manual can be found on the ICES website: The survey is ICES coordinated and performed in collaboration with research vessels from Denmark, Norway, Germany, Netherlands, England, Scotland and France. During the surveys, a GOV bottom trawl is used at day-time. This gear is a standard since the seventies and used by all countries involved. A Method Isaac Kidd trawl is used at night-time in the quarter 1 survey to estimate the abundance of fish larvae, in particular herring- and sprat larvae. In connection to each haul hydrographical data are collected with a CTD. Primary survey data are stored in a fish sample database (FISKDATA) administered by IMR in Lysekil. Aggregated data are reported and used annually by relevant ICES Working Groups. Since 1977, data are also stored in an internationally coordinated database (DATRAS) at ICES in Copenhagen. The survey is well suited for the calculation of the ecosystem indicators 1-4 as listed in Appendix XIII of Commission Decision 2008/949/EC. 63

64 Map 4. IBTS (International Bottom Trawl Survey) quarter 1. Stations plotted from survey conducted in

65 Map 5. IBTS quarter 1, Stations plotted for larvae hauls using MIK trawl 65

66 Map 6. IBTS quarter 3. Stations plotted from survey conducted in

67 International Ecosystem Survey in the Nordic Seas (ASH) Sweden will participate with two staff members during two weeks of the ASH survey targeting herring and blue whiting in the Norwegian Sea, area IIa. The survey is coordinated by Denmark. Nephrops TV Survey (NTV3&4) Uncertainty regarding landing figures and concern over some of the analytical assumptions upon which analytical assessments are based, has lead to investigations into alternative approaches for providing Nephrops advice. Nephrops stocks are limited to bottoms with suitable silty clay sediment where they live in burrows. This mud-burrowing species is protected from trawling while inside its burrow. Burrow emergence is known to vary with environmental (ambient light intensity) and biological (moult cycle, female reproductive condition) factors. Trawl surveys are therefore not ideal for Nephrops, and underwater TV (UWTV) has been developed as a means of estimating stock size from burrow densities. The Marine laboratory in Aberdeen developed a fishery independent UWTV survey in order to estimate stock size from burrow densities. UWTV consists of a video camera mounted on a sledge that is towed slowly on the bottom by a vessel. Nephrops burrows are counted and converted into densities using information on the width of the view of the camera and length of the tow. ICES Advisory Committee for Fisheries Management (ACFM) recommend that UWTV surveys should be used to provide biomass estimates for mud-burrowing animals like Nephrops. Standardisation of the UWTV methodology has been established at a Workshop on TV surveys for Neprops stocks (WKNEPHTV) in April The Swedish Nephrops fishery has got an increasing economic importance in recent years and it was suggested that Denmark and Sweden start a joint UWTV survey on Nephrops grounds in the Skagerrak and the Kattegat using R/V Ancylus. The first survey will take place during the summer months in 2009 The films will be stored on external hard-discs and DVD:s. Aggregated data will be stored in the database. 67

68 Map 7. illustrating the UWTV-survey area III. G.2 Modifications in the surveys No modifications of the Swedish surveys are planned. 68

69 IV. Module of the evaluation of the economic situation of the aquaculture and processing industry IV.A Collection of data concerning the aquaculture IV.A.1 General description of the aquaculture sector In 2006 the total volume of the aquaculture production in Sweden was 9625 tonnes, and the value of the total production was 30.4 million EUR. The total population of enterprises was 207, and the total number of persons employed was 286. The main species produced was rainbow trout with a total volume of 6787 tonnes, the total value of the production was 20.3 million EUR. The volume of mussels produced in 2006 was 1791 tonnes with a value of 1.4 million EUR, and the total production of crayfish was 7 tonnes with a value of less than 0.2 million EUR. Over the period 1996 to 2006 the volume of total production fluctuated between 5,500 and 9700 tonnes and the value of total production fluctuated between 14.5 and 30.4 million EUR. Both the number of companies and the employment numbers indicate a declining trend in the long term perspective. The volume of the saltwater production varied between 1,300 and 2,900 tonnes and its value fluctuated between 3.3 and 6.7 million EUR. The freshwater production varied between 3000 and 6100 tonnes, with a value of production fluctuating between 9.2 and 25.3 million EUR. Both volume and value of the freshwater production has increased largely over the period, but the number of companies has declined since production has gradually concentrated towards a few large producers. The volume of shellfish production varied between 500 and 1800 tonnes and the value of shellfish production fluctuated between 0.2 and 1.4 million EUR. It should be noted that during the period 1996 to 1999 only data on fish for consumption were collected. Since fish for stocking purposes is mostly produced in freshwater, this mainly affects the times series of the freshwater production. IV.A.2 Data acquisition The Swedish Board of Fisheries (SBF) will be responsible for compiling and reporting the statistics on the aquaculture sector. The SBF in cooperation with Statistics Sweden and Fiskhälsan AB (The National Fish Health Control Programme) will conduct an annual survey covering all enterprises whose primary activity is defined according to the EUROSTAT definition under NACE Rev. 2 Code 03.2: Aquaculture. Data on subsidies will be collected from the Swedish Board of Fisheries who is the managing authority of the European Fisheries Fund (EFF). Reference years for collection of data are 2008 and The reference year of 2008 and 2009 refers to the year for which data will be collected, i.e. to the planned sampling. Final validated data referring to 2008 will be available in end of February the forthcoming year However at the end of 2009 preliminary data will be available. This is due to the data from Statistics Sweden not being finalized earlier. Segmentation: For companies using more than one technique or having more than one species all production, incomes and costs will be transferred to the main technique and main species based on turnover. 69

70 Data will be collected by Statistics Sweden and Fiskhälsan AB. Statistics Sweden will use a questionnaire to be sent out to all aquaculture companies. The results from the questionnaire and data from annual tax declarations of the enterprises will be compiled. Fiskhälsan AB conducts a survey by visiting a number of aquaculture companies, who participate in a mandatory fish health control programme. Thereby they are able to get more detailed data over different types of costs specific to aquaculture companies (personnel costs, energy costs, live raw material costs, feed raw material costs and number of employees including months worked as well as unpaid labour measured in months). Since three sources will be used for retrieving the necessary information some approximations and calculations are necessary. As regards energy costs, live raw material costs and feed raw material costs, the values of these indicators will be calculated through looking at each cost per tonne based on the data provided by Fiskhälsan AB and (in the case of mussel, oyster and crayfish producers) by the survey conducted by the Swedish Board of Fisheries. The cost per tonnene is then applied to the volume of each segment provided by Statistics Sweden. Thus, although it is not possible to get the information on energy costs, live raw material costs etc from the data provided by Statistics Sweden, these figures will be estimated through looking at the data retrieved through the additional surveys. For estimating value of unpaid labour the data provided through the additional surveys of Fiskhälsan AB (for fish producers) and the Swedish Board of Fisheries (for mussel, oyster and crayfish producers) form the basis. The full time equivalents of employed persons and the figures on unpaid labour are divided by number of firms in each segment and can then be applied to the data provided by Statistics Sweden. Some segments and sub-segments are very small and will therefore only be presented on a larger scale. The survey to be conducted by Statistics Sweden is an exhaustive survey, i.e. all enterprises with permits for aquaculture production will be included. The survey to be carried out by Fiskhälsan AB will cover all enterprises affiliated to Fiskhälsan. Segments can be presented in different detail, depending on the number of companies in each segment will be the first year of collecting data on the aquaculture sector according to the new regulation. The survey will therefore be further developed and modifications found necessary when collecting the data in 2009 will be taken into consideration for the collection of data in For companies using more than one technique or having more than one species all production, incomes and costs will be transferred to the main technique and main species based on turnover. Definition of variables and sources: As defined in Appendix X of the Commission regulation (EC) no 665/2008. Income: Data on turnover and other income shall be compiled from tax declarations/company accounts (bought from Statistics Sweden), data on direct subsidies will be collected from the Swedish Board of Fisheries. Personnel costs: Wages and salaries of staff shall be compiled from tax declarations/company accounts (bought from Statistics Sweden). Imputed value of unpaid labour will be estimated from data on employment from company accounts. The imputed value will be based on a panel of companies. Energy costs: Data from questionnaire surveys to be conducted by Fiskhälsan AB and the Swedish Board of Fisheries. 70

71 Raw material costs: Data from questionnaire survey to be conducted by Fiskhälsan AB and the Swedish Board of Fisheries. Other operational costs: Shall be compiled from tax declarations/company accounts (bought from Statistics Sweden) and from questionnaire survey to be conducted by Fiskhälsan AB and the Swedish Board of Fisheries. Capital costs: Depreciation of capital and financial costs, net, shall be compiled from tax declarations/company accounts (bought from Statistics Sweden). Extraordinary costs, net: Shall be compiled from tax declarations/company accounts (bought from Statistics Sweden). Capital value: Shall be compiled from tax declarations/company accounts (bought from Statistics Sweden). Net investments: Shall be compiled from tax declarations/company accounts (bought from Statistics Sweden). Debt: Shall be compiled from tax declarations/company accounts (bought from Statistics Sweden). Raw material volume: Data from questionnaire survey to be conducted by Fiskhälsan AB and the Swedish Board of Fisheries. Volume of sales: Data from questionnaire survey to be conducted by Fiskhälsan AB and the Swedish Board of Fisheries. Employment: Compiled from tax declarations/company accounts (bought from Statistics Sweden). Number of persons employed by gender is counted as all persons employed, including part time. Persons who are not in service due to illness, vacation, on leave of absence etc are included. Working owners in joint-stock companies are also included. A person employed at different work places is counted several times but if one employed person has more than one job at the same work place this person is only counted once. For full time equivalents, FTE National, employment is recalculated to full time employment i.e. two part time jobs become one full time job. A full time employment is considered to consist of 1800 working hours. Data on employment will be collected by gender but FTE:s will not be estimated by gender. Number of enterprises: Shall be compiled from company accounts by size category (bought from Statistics Sweden). IV.A.3 Data quality The survey to be carried out by Statistics Sweden will be an exhaustive survey of all enterprises under NACE Rev. 2 Code 03.2: Aquaculture whereas the survey to be conducted by Fiskhälsan AB covers all affiliated enterprises, which makes up approximately 50 % of all aquaculture enterprises. All larger aqua culture enterprises are affiliated to Fiskhälsan AB and the 25 largest ones stand for 90 % of the total Swedish production of fish for consumption. Both the survey to be carried out by Statistics Sweden and the survey to be carried out by Fiskhälsan AB include data on production. This will then serve as a validation indicator. IV.A.4 Regional coordination Sweden will participate in the : s and implement their recommendations. IV.A.5 Derogations and non-conformities There are no planned derogations or non-conformities with the requirements of the DCR. 71

72 IV.B. Collection of data concerning the processing industry IV.B.1 Data acquisition Reference years for collection of economic data are 2007 and Final and validated economic data on 2007 will be available in mid October 2009 and final and validated economic data on 2008 will be available in mid October Population: All enterprises whose main activity is defined according to the EUROSTAT definition under NACE Rev. 2 Code 10.20: Processing and preserving of fish crustaceans and molluscs. Company accounts: Data will be based on company accounts of all enterprises in the population. Data will be compiled by Statistics Sweden. Stratification: Data will be stratified according to size category (number of persons employed). Definition of variables and sources: As defined in Appendix VII of the Commission regulation (EC) no 665/2008 Income: Turnover, subsidies and other income shall be compiled from company accounts (bought from Statistics Sweden). Personnel costs: Wages and salaries of staff shall be compiled from company accounts (bought from Statistics Sweden). Imputed value of unpaid labour will be estimated from data on employment from company accounts. The imputed value will be based on a panel of companies. Energy costs: Shall be compiled from company accounts (bought from Statistics Sweden). Raw material costs: Shall be compiled from company accounts (bought from Statistics Sweden). Other operational costs: Shall be compiled from company accounts (bought from Statistics Sweden). Capital costs: Depreciation of capital and financial costs, net, shall be compiled from company accounts (bought from Statistics Sweden). Extraordinary costs, net: Shall be compiled from company accounts (bought from Statistics Sweden). Capital value: Shall be compiled from company accounts (bought from Statistics Sweden). Net investments: Shall be compiled from company accounts (bought from Statistics Sweden). Debt: Shall be compiled from company accounts (bought from Statistics Sweden). Employment: Compiled from company accounts (bought from Statistics Sweden). Number of persons employed by gender is counted as all persons employed, including part time. Persons who are not in service due to illness, vacation, on leave of absence etc are included. Working owners in joint-stock companies are also included. A person employed at different work places is counted several times but if one employed person has more than one job at the same work place this person is only counted once. For full time equivalents, FTE National, employment is recalculated to full time employment i.e. two part time jobs become one full time job. A full time employment is considered to consist of 1800 working hours. Data on employment will be collected by gender but FTE:s will not be estimated by gender. 72

73 Number of enterprises: Shall be compiled from company accounts by size category (bought from Statistics Sweden). IV.B.2 Data quality The data is compiled from an exhaustive survey carried out by Statistics Sweden on tax declarations/company accounts called The economy of the enterprises. IV.B.3 Regional coordination Sweden will participate in the s and implement their recommendations. IV.B.4 Derogations and non-conformities There are no planned derogations or non-conformities with the requirements of the DCR. V. Module of evaluation of the effects of the fishing sector on the marine ecosystem Through our annual surveys, The Swedish Board of Fisheries can realize the data requirements for the indicators 1-4 proposed in the Commission Decision 2008/949/EC Appendix XIII. The spatial and temporal coverage of data collection for the evaluation of effects of the fishing sector will consist of area IIIa in the first and third quarters and area IIId in the first and fourth quarters 2009 and The data collection will be fishery independent and is carried out by our research vessel ARGOS using standard gear, thereby fulfilling the required precision level. The surveys are described in section III.G.1. Data on species, length frequencies and abundance will be collected from all hauls including individual parameters such as age, length, sex and maturity from the target species of the survey at the required precision level. Sweden is collecting VMS data and the Research and Development Department of the Swedish Board of Fisheries has full access to VMS data from all Swedish vessels in all waters. Positions are reported once every hour for boats of 15m length or longer. Data can be aggregated at métier level 6 for environmental indicators 4, 5 and 6 and processed accordingly. 73

74 VI. Module for management and use of the data VI.A Management of the data General The biological and economical data are stored in five different Oracle databases (listed below) at The Swedish Board of Fisheries. In addition, The Board of Fisheries also houses a database where surveillance data from the Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) are stored. LOGGBAS: landing data LANDBAS: data from the fishery control FARTYG2 data on fishing vessels and licences FISKDATA: survey data and biological sampling collected by the IMR KUL: biological sampling data collected by the ICR VMS: monitoring data The databases are inter-linked as illustrated below: VMS LOGGBAS FARTYG2 LANDBAS KUL FISKDATA All data are entered as primary data. Metadata are stored in specific tables in the databases. The databases are backed-up on a daily basis by the database administrator. Landing data Landing data are stored in a relational database, LOGGBAS, as primary data delivered by fisherman through logbooks and coastal journals. FARTYG2 supports LOGGBAS with data on the Swedish fishing vessels and licences. LOGGBAS and FARTYG2 provide look-up tables for FISKDATA, LANDBAS and KUL. Survey data and data from biological sampling The Institute of Marine Research (IMR) administers a relational database, FISKDATA, where all survey data, all data from the biological sampling on landings and discards collected are stored. The database schema has been in use since The biological data are stored as primary data at different levels in a hierarchy where journeys are the highest level and single specimen parameters at the lowest level. 74

75 Journeys Stations fished Species caught Specimen analysed Length frequency by species Parameter analysed by specimen Quality control and validation procedures are secured through data being checked against look-up tables and business rules when entering data. Only primary data are stored in the database but through reports, aggregated data can be extracted which is submitted on a regular basis to other internationally co-ordinated databases (Datras, Fishframe) or on request, for instance by the JRC (for STECF related working groups). A project is currently running, aiming to modernize FISKDATA and the new version is planned to be implemented during At the Institute of Costal Research, the data are stored in a centralized database, KUL, and data are entered at the lowest level. The database is operated by the IT department at The Swedish Board of Fisheries. Quality control and validation procedures are secured through data being checked against look-up tables and business rules when entering data. At regular intervals (each night) the data is transferred into a data warehouse. In order to be transferred, the data must be approved. Once the data have been approved and allowed to be transferred to the data warehouse, this data cannot be changed. All data that is entered and changed in the database are logged. Internally at the Institute for Costal Research the scientists have query tools that enable them to retrieve data from the data warehouse at any level. From the data warehouse, aggregated data can be requested by any end user. Socio-economic data The primary socio-economic data come from different sources. Some data are derived from centralized databases at The Swedish Board of Fisheries, and other data come from external sources, such as the Swedish authorities and questionnaires sent to selected fishermen. Currently all the socio-economic data are handled in Excel files. A project has recently been defined in order to create a new system where the socio-economic data will be stored in a centralized electronic database, EKBAS. 75

76 Data entry functions will be created for all data derived from external sources and for data that are manually estimated at The Swedish Board of Fisheries. Functions will also be created for estimating of the costs per vessel where the primary data is the selection of questionnaires or cost data from the authorities. The data will be stored on primary data level and on estimated level. No data will be deleted during the process, in order to achieve traceability. Socio-economic data will also be transferred to a data warehouse, where aggregated data can be requested by any end user. Data request log Queries that are made against the data warehouse at the home page of The Swedish Board of Fisheries will not be logged whereas queries made by personnel at The Swedish Board of Fisheries on demand from end users will be logged. For this purpose a logging database will be created in accordance with article 9 in the COM Reg.(EC) no 665/2008. VI. B Use of the data The Swedish Board of Fisheries databases can provide sets of data to support scientific analysis needed to advice fisheries management. It includes parameters for assessment purposes or other scientific analysis such as number-at-age, weight-at-age and maturity-at-age which have routinely been submitted to relevant ICES governed assessment groups. The data stored, also allow the assessment of the status of exploited stocks as well as estimating the volume of catches (defined by regional fishing types and fleet segments) including discards in the areas IIIa and IIId, on a quarterly basis. VII. Follow-up of STECF recommendations The evaluations made by SGRN/STECF on the Swedish proposals and Technical reports have so far been rather favourable and the requests from the Commission for clarifications and explanations have been delivered in time and accepted. 76

77 VIII. List of derogations Sweden requests the following derogations: Title of derogation NP proposal section Derogation approved/rejected Pots and traps fisheries targeting III.C.5 Baltic freshwater species (FPO_FWS_0_0_0 Longline fisheries targeting III.C.5 Baltic demersal fish (LLS_DEF_0_0_0), Subdivision Trawl fisheries targeting demersal III.C.5 North Sea fish (OTB_DEF_90-119_0_0), IV Year of past approval/rejection Trawl fisheries targeting demersal fish (OTB_DEF_<16_0_0), IIIaN, IV Trawl fisheries targeting small pelagic fish (PTM_SPF_32-69_0_0), IV Hand and pole line fishery targeting finfish (LHM_FIF_0_0_0), IIIa, IV Gillnet fisheries targeting small pelagic fish (GNS_SPF_50-69_0_0), IIIa, IV Gillnet fisheries targeting demersal fish (GNS_DEF_ _0_0), IIIaN Gillnet fisheries targeting demersal fish (GNS_DEF_ _0_0), IV Purse seine fisheries targeting small pelagic fish (PS_SPF _0), IV Cod sampling sd Herring sampling sd 30 Haddock sampling sd IIIa III.C.5 North Sea III.C.5 North Sea III.C.5 North Sea III.C.5 North Sea III.C.5 North Sea III.C.5 North Sea III.C.5 North Sea III.E.5 Baltic III.E.5 Baltic III.E.5 North Sea 77

78 IX. List of acronyms and abbreviations DFU ICES RAC SPSS WGIBTS WGBIFS WKNEPHTV WKSRFB WGBAST Danmarks Fiskeriundersögelser International Council for the Exploration of the Sea Regional Advisory Committee Regional Coordination Meeting Statistical Package for the Social Sciences International Bottom Trawl Survey Working Group Baltic International Fish Survey Working Group Workshop on the Use of UWTV Surveys for determining abundances in Nephrops stock in European Waters Workshop on Sampling Recreational Fisheries in the Baltic Baltic Salmon and Trout Assessment Working Group X. Comments, suggestions and reflections XI. References Anon 2000a. Method handbook for the Swedish Board of Fisheries Age Analysis Laboratories: the Marine Fisheries Laboratory, Coastal Laboratory, by the Freshwater Fisheries Laboratory Edition No. 3. Anon 2000b. Manual for the International Bottom Trawl Surveys ICES CM 2000/D:07 Anon Manual for the Baltic International Trawl surveys. ICES CM 2002/G:05(Addendum) Anon Game and Recreational Fishery in Sweden Pilot Study. Institute of Marine Research, Swedish Board of Fisheries, 5 pp. Anon Workshop on the Use of UWTV Surveys for determining abundances in Neprops stock in European Waters, Heraklion, Greece April (ICES CM 2007/ACFM:14) ICES Manual for Herring Hydro Acoustic Surveys ICES CM 1994/H:3 Anon 2008a. Report of the Baltic Fisheries Assessment Working Group. Copenhagen, 8-17 April 2008 (ICES CM 2008/ACOM:06). Anon 2008b. Manual for the Baltic International Acoustic surveys ICES CM 2008/LRC:8Add 2 78

79 XII. Annexes Annex 1. Swedish sampling by stock and sampling location Species Species Group Region Area / Stock market *sea *survey sampl Age Weight Sex-ratio Maturity samples from DEN/ GER/ FIN total market *sea sampl *survey samples from DEN/ GER/ FIN total market *sea *survey sampl samples from DEN/ GER/ FIN total market *sea *survey sampl Anguilla anguilla G1 Baltic IIIb-d Clupea harengus G1 Baltic IIIa/ Clupea harengus G1 Baltic Clupea harengus G1 Baltic sd ) Gadus morhua G1 Baltic ) ) Gadus morhua G1 Baltic Platichtys flesus G2 Baltic Salmo salar G1 Baltic / Sprattus sprattus G1 Baltic Anguilla anguilla G1 North Sea and East ArcIIIa Clupea harengus G1 North Sea and East ArcIV, VIId, IIIa Gadus morhua G1 North Sea and East ArcIIIaN Gadus morhua G1 North Sea and East ArcIIIaS Glyptocephalus cynoglossus G2 North Sea and East ArcIIIa Melanogrammus aeglefinus G1 North Sea and East ArcIV, IIIa Nephrops norvegicus 2) G1 North Sea and East ArcFU3 (IIIaN) Nephrops norvegicus G1 North Sea and East ArcFU4 (IIIaS) Pandalus borealis G1 North Sea and East ArcIIIa, Pleuronectes platessa G1 North Sea and East ArcIIIa Sprattus sprattus G1 North Sea and East ArcIIIa * Numbers presented for discard and survey sampling are dependent on amount of catch which is variable. Numbers in table above is referring to the results from ) Only SD 23 covered in the IBTS survey 2) Nephrops is sampled in sea sampling only. Figures are splitted between retined and discarded part of the catch 3) Finland samples from DEN/ GER/ FIN total 79

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81 Annex III A cost-benefit analysis of the proposed investments in the index river Ume/Vindelälven by Professor Hans Lundqvist Swedish University of Agriculture Background In Umeälven, fish migrate upriver in the flow controlled lower part of Umeälven and pass an existing fish-ladder where they are counted and released to further migrate upstream c. 230 km to the spawning areas in the tributary Vindelälven (Lundqvist et al 2008). The Vindelälven has an annual mean flow of 190 m3/s and it joins the Umeälven just upstream from the Stornorrfors Power Station and contains accessible habitat for wild salmon and trout. From 1974 to 2007, a total of 57,146 adult salmon and 1,446 sea trout, respectively, were counted at a fish ladder near the power station in Stornorrfors (Rivinoja 2005, Östergren 2007, Palm 2007, Ferguson 2008), which is the largest hydroelectric facility in Sweden. The owners to the hydro-power facility have now decided to build a new fish ladder (built 2009 and will be installed 2010 at an estimated cost c. 11 MEuro) (se also figure 1 & 2) and replace the old fish-ladder which function has been debated for many years. This new fish ladder will then be equipped with a new fish guiding device at the top of the ladder with the aim to guide the surviving spawners (named Kelts) from previous year and the annual production of downstream migrating smolts through the new fish ladder, on their return migration back to sea. The ultimate goal is thus to save the naturally produced smolts and over-wintering spent spawners from turbine-intakes. The fish guiding device (to be built 2010) has an estimated cost of c. 1 MEuro. Besides setting up these facilities another fishladder or improvements of the bypass channel c. 8 kilometers below the upper fishladder site Vattenfall AB has set aside another c. 2.7 MEuro to improve the passage area so fish can reach the upper areas. All these actions taken place in this northern river has no similarities in other European waters and will be an important show-case for other EUcountries. People from the Hydro-power industry, SLU (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences), The Luleå Techniqual University, the National Board of Fisheries and a number of local and regional stake-holders including land-owners are involved in finding a solutions to these passage problems. These tasks are important topics within the EU-WFD (European Water Framework directive) as well as many of the Swedish environmental goals. In addition to these more specific fish passage projects a larger restoration project aiming at removal of migratory barriers to increase connectivity for fish (so they can reach spawning and nursery areas) caused by historic log floating activities has been undertaken in the main stem by local stake-holders. These efforts have been economically supported by the Swedish Environmental protection board and EU at a costs of c. 2,5 MEuro. In conclusion, more than 17 Million Euro has been spent, or are decided to be spent, on different actions in the river to improve the situation for salmonid fish. The Objectives with national Index rivers as Ume/Vindelälven Ume/Vindelälven will be established as a national index-river for Sweden in ICES assessment area 2 (WGBAST 2008) with the aim to collect data during their migratory season (adults and smolts) and for juveniles also at other seasons and analyse data as follows: 1) Collect data on downstream migrating fish using either Rotary-Screw-Fish-Traps (Thedinga et al. 1994, ) or trapping in new fish-ladder in Stornorrfors. 2) Estimate the natural production potential of migratory wild salmonids from the relation between the size of the spawner stock and the production of new recruits (ie, stock-recruitment analysis)

82 84 Detailed stock-recruit data from the index rivers in the Baltic Sea will be extremely valuable for more precise assessment of status of all wild stocks. These data altogether will help weak stocks of salmon to recover and rebuild viable populations. To be able to get detailed information on the migration of adult and juvenile salmon and trout we have a need for a marking method that has long life time, can easily be attached/injected to fish in size ranges from 80 mm in length (c. 8 gram juveniles) to 150 cm in length (c Kg adult) and be automatically registered when tagged fish pass a reader system. Different Tagging Technologies to choose from Several tag types can be used to collect vital statistics and other information on fish needed for management decisions. We have followed the independent science review of fish tagging technologies used in the Columbia River basin as a guideline ( ) for choosing the most proper tagging technology for our program in river Umeälven and Vindelälven. We have thus selected a marking method built on PIT (Passive Intergrated Transponder) technology since these tags can be read on equal basis in the whole drainage basin when used in different projects and automatically read when fish leave or enter the river through the new fishladder where larger antennas will be built in at the entrance and upper part. Data from tagged fish will provide information useful for effective decision-making since fish from various areas are tagged (main stem and tributaries), sampled in smolt traps in the lower part of the river to provide measures of in-river survival and smolt production estimates from mark-recapture studies. The return rate (ie. survival rates for adults from these taggings) will then be calculated after one to several years in the sea when fish return and pass the automatic readers. The PIT technology Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tags are glass encapsulated, implantable radiofrequency identification devices that contain integrated circuit chips. They are passive, i.e., do not contain an internal energy source such as a battery. Consequently, the tag remains functional for the entire life of a tagged animal. The cost of a single PIT-tag is c. 1,8 Euro at present. A PIT-tag system consists of the tag (tag size: 12 mm, 23 mm), antenna, and transceiver. PIT-tags have been used for monitoring salmonid survival, migratory behavior, and timing in the Columbia for a long period of time. The application of using PIT tag monitoring systems at hydroelectric dams in the Columbia was pioneered by Earl Prentice and other fishery scientists at NOAA Fisheries during the late 1980s (Prentice et al. 1990a;1990b; and 1990c.). One of the major limitations of PIT tag systems for hydrosystem smolt monitoring is antenna size (at present the largest ones used at hydroelectric dams is c. 5 x 5 meters). This also allows placement of PIT tag detection systems in tributaries to be able to monitor both tagged smolt and adult movements in both large and small tributaries in order to better understand salmonid behavior and migration timing. Installation of PIT-antennas for reading individual tags in the new fish-ladder As mentioned earlier a PIT-tag system consists of the tag, antennas, and transceivers that altogether give the performance of the system. In our discussions with Prentice and associates in US we have done a cost estimate based on retail prices in spring 2008 on the equipment (antennas) that can be viewed in Tables I and 2 below. We estimate the total cost for a PITsystem in the new fish ladder to be c. $700K US (550 KEuro) and probably somewhat higher because of increased costs for parts. However, with good planning, costs are expected to be reduced depending on costs for labour and materials in Sweden. ( /isab/isabisrp htm

83 Table I. Antenna cost estimate by option and type Note *. Antenna No. Type Cost per Total Location Antennas Antenna Antenna Cost Flume exit 2 Rectangular $35K $70K 2 Flumes 4 Rectangular $35K $140K Two Upper Weirs No Overflow 2 Orifice $20K $40K Two Lower Weirs No Overflow 2 Orifice $20K $40K Two Upper Weirs With Overflow Orifice + Overflow $20K + 30K $100K Note * Keep in mind that the cost estimate provided is in U.S dollars and is very rough! Note ** Table II. Antenna cost by general option Option I : Antennas in the exit of the louver flume plus two weirs at top and bottom of the ladder with orifice antennas only. Total cost of antennas $150K Option II: Antennas in the exit of the louver flume plus two weirs at top with orifice and overflow antennas plus two weirs at bottom of the ladder with orifice antennas only. Total cost of antennas $210K Option III: Antennas in two of the louver flume plus two weirs at top with orifice and overflow antennas plus two weirs at bottom of the ladder with orifice antennas only. Total cost of antennas $280K Note ** In regards to antenna location, we consider installing antennas in two consecutive weirs at the ladder entrance and two consecutive weirs just downstream of where the smolts enter the ladder providing that this location is sufficiently near the exit of the ladder to meet our information needs. The placement of the antennas would enable us to: 1) use the ladder antennas for smolt monitoring in addition to the antennas placed in the louver fish guidance exit flume; 2) having two antenna systems close together at the ladder entrance will provide uswith fish direction and time of entrance information; and 3) having two antenna systems located at the ladder exit will enable us to determine time of exit, time of travel in the ladder, and if kelts enter and leave the mouth of the ladder. We feel that these antenna placement addressees all our information needs. A number of different transceivers can be used depending on what system we finally will evaluate as the best. At this time we are suggesting that each antenna be operated with an individual transceiver. This approach increases the cost of the project but provides maximum system redundancy and ensures there is no time that an antenna is not in an operational mode (i.e., unlike with antennas connected to a multiplexing transceiver), and ensures that there is no transceiver interference. If cost becomes a big factor a multiplexing transceiver might be considered but there would be performance issues to be considered in relation to cost and reliability. At present the retail price for a transceiver FS 1001-A or FS 1001M is between $8K to $10K. With option II we will need a total of 8 transceivers if we use one FS 1001-A transceiver per antenna for a total of c. $60K. We have also the option of reducing the number of transceivers by using a multiplexing transceiver at some of the locations (but with us with 83

84 a risk of losing some information because of antenna switching time and transceiver interference). These details will be worked out later on to be as cost effective as possible. One tempting antenna option is thus to operate up to 4 antennas with a single transceiver at the top of the ladder and two antennas with a single transceiver at the bottom of the ladder and two antennas at the exit of the flume if there is room for the antennas. Again because of the time it takes to switch from one antenna to the next antenna and the time each antenna searches for a tag, a fish could pass an antenna that was not active and thus you would lose the information. Also depending upon the distance and structure between multiplexing antennas there can be interference and the system would not operate. The operation details between antennas and transceivers will need to be investigated prior to any commitment. So, if the antenna costs were estimated at $210K for option II thus $210 plus $44K = $254K. If the cabling, computers, electrical, routers, communications, transceiver boxes and mounts cost $100K thus we are up to $354K. After this we add the cost of the electronics room where the storage of computers will be. The big unknown is the cost of the installation of the antennas, installing the transceivers in secondary weather proof enclosures and mounting those units in a manner so that they are shielded from direct sun. Running power to the transceivers, cables to the antennas in a manner that will not cause damage to the fish or equipment, and communication cables back to the electronics room. The big cost item will be the system installation cost which that we only can estimate (as a good guess) to be about the same as the equipment at c. $300K. These costs will depend upon how the antennas are installed (replaceable weir wall, external mounted antennas, etc.). The costs for c. 10,000 PIT tags/year would then add c. 14 KEuro/year which we will be using in 2009 and 2010 when smolts are tagged. We are fairly sure that the total cost will be close if not greater than $700K originally estimated. The cost estimate for equipment other than for the antennas and transceivers is based upon PIT-tag installations in fish ladders at other dams in the Columbia River Basin and is based on 2002 costs not In addition, there is no cost estimate for the installation or maintenance of the system or for data transfer and data base maintenance or management. Conclusion, It is difficult to do a detailed CBA (Cost Benefit analysis) on costs for installation of this system vs benefit for the resource because it has never been done in European waters/fish ladders earlier. We feel confident that this PIT system, if allowed to be sponsored and installed, will give us the marking technique to follow juveniles and adults of anadromous salmon and trouts for a long-time. So far, c. 17,2 MEuro has been invested (or are to be during ) in fishery related actions in the river valley to help Salmon and sea trouts to build viable populations. To further invest c. 550 KEuro in a new tagging system to evaluate critical questions on smolt production in the system, evaluate the function of the new fish ladder and smolt-leader, will be beneficial for the salmon, the salmon managers and the society. References: Ferguson, J.W Behavior and Survival of Fish Migrating Downstream in Regulated Rivers. Doctoral Thesis. Faculty of Forest Sciences, Dept of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies. SLU. Umeå 2008 Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae 2008:23 Lundqvist, H., P.Rivinoja, K.Leonardsson, S.McKinnell Upstream passage problems for wild salmon (Salmo salar) in a regulated river and its effect on the population. Hydrobiologia 602: DOI /s Östergren, J Migration and genetic structure of Salmo salar and Salmo trutta in northern swedish rivers". Doctoral thesis no 2006:112, Faculty of Forest sciences. equippment 84

85 Palm D Restoration of streams used for timber-floating: Egg to fry survival, fry displacement, over-wintering and population density of juvenile Brown trout (Salmo trutta)" Doctoral thesis no, 2007:120, Faculty of forest sciences. Prentice, E., T. Flagg, and C. McCutcheon Feasibility of using implantable passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags in salmonids. American Fisheries Society Symposium 7: Rivinoja, P Migration problems of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) in flow regulated rivers. PhD Thesis. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Aquaculture, Umeå, Sweden. Thedinga, J. F., Murphy M. L., Johnson S. W., Lorentz J. M., and Koski K V.. (1994) Determination of salmonid smolt yield with rotary-screw traps in the Situk River, Alaska, to predict effects of glacial flooding. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 14: WGBAST (2008) Report of the Baltic Salmon and Trout Assessment Working Group (WGBAST), ICES, 235 pp. <sp><sp><sp><sp> New fishladder Figure 1. The upper part of the bypass area in the river Umeälven where the new 11 MEuro fishladder now is built. 85

86 Figure 2. Location of the new fish-ladder in Stornorrfors highlighting the smolt-leader system to be installed. (top left) and the trapping and PIT registration system in the ladder (bottom right) 86